QSR1855/3/5/22

Depositions of George Turner, labourer of Radwell, his wife Sarah Turner, Richard Stennett, superintendent constable of Bedford. In the case of John Miller, accused of stealing a waistcoat.

22 May 1855

From: 1855 To: 1855

George Turner: resided at Radwell and worked on a railway in the neighbourhood. The prisoner lodged with him for about 3 weeks. He left the lodging on 5 May and on the same evening he saw the prisoner with his fustian sleeved jacket on. He did not say anything about it but as he had no waistcoat of his own he did not tell him to take it off. He had not lent him the jacket but he had previously lent him a great coat which he had returned. In the cause of the night he heard the prisoner had gone off with the jacket. The next morning he advised Mr Graham. He accompanied Graham to Bedford in search of the prisoner and they advised Mt Stennett of Bedford and the jacket was produced by Stennett. The jacket was worth 2 shillings. The prisoner did not ask to be lent the jacket. Richard Stennett: from information received he looked out for the prisoner and apprehended him at the Beer Shop on the Kemspton Road in Bedford on 15 Mya. The prisoner was wearing the jacket. He told the prisoner of the charge against hiom and the prisoner replied he had not stolen it but it had been lent to him. Sarah Turner: she knew the jacket to be her husband’s. She had never lent the prisoner the jacket or the coat. Statement of the accused: nothing to say.

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Miller, John,
Turner, George,
Turner, Sarah,
Stennett, Richard

Radwell, stealing, waistcoat, BEDFORD