QSR1855/3/5/56a

Depositions of Thomas Thurley, shoemaker of Girtford, George Cheney, police sergeant and Mary Ann Emery, spinster of Girtford. In the case of John Pacey, labourer of Girtford, accused of breaking and entering the house of Thomas Thurley and stealing an umbrella and certain money.

19 April 1855

From: 1855 To: 1855

Thomas Thurley: on 14 April he had an umbrella, £3 in gold, 14 shillings in silver and 9 pence half penny in copper safe on his property. The umbrella stood in the corner of a room covered by the leaf of a table and the money in a box in the corner of the bedroom. He left his home on Sunday and returned early on Monday. The property was missing. He had left the windows fastened and the back door locked but a pane of glass had been broken in the window and the back door was open. He had reason to suspect the prisoner who had been in his employment for several weeks and was to be bound to him as an apprentice. He applied to PC Breakwell to trace the prisoner. No one had been left in the house during his absence. Sergeant George Cheney: had been on the look out for John Pacey and had apprehended him at Wootton. He told Pacey the charge who appeared much in grief and asked what would happened to him. Cheney said he could not tell as he did not know the charge. Pacey said they were charging him with taking his masters money but he had not. Cheney had not mentioned the money to him. On searching Pacey he found a half penny and an umbrella. Pacey said the umbrella was his brothers. Mary Ann Emery: a servant to Mr Tiplow of Girtford. She had been undoing the shutter of her master’s house about 5.30am on Sunday and she had seen the prisoner whom she knew by sight, go past the gate with a bundle and an umbrella. He was coming from the direction of Mr Thurley’s house and towards Tempsford. The prisoner declined to say anything.

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Pacey, John,
Thurley, Thomas,
Emery, Mary Ann,
Cheney, George

Girtford, stealing, breaking & entering, umbrella, money, shoemaker, apprenticeship