Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1846/1/5/26
  • Title
    Depositions and examination- Thomas Abrahams charged wtih stealing 3 sovereigns and 2 half sovereigns from John Morgan at Lidlington on 2 January 1846
  • Date free text
    3 January 1846
  • Production date
    From: 1846 To: 1846
  • Scope and Content
    John Morgan of Ridgmont, wheelwright – he lives at Mr Checkley’s farm in Lidlington and is employed on the new line of railroad. He kept his money in his bedroom in a box upstairs. He had £21. James Farquharson came to him yesterday and asked if he had missed any money. Farquharson said he had seen Thomas Abrahams hiding some money in the grass. He found his box broken open and £4 gone which he believes consisted of 3 sovereigns and 2 half sovereigns. When he came downstairs Abrahams had absconded. He informed the police. James Farquharson – he is a storekeeper on the Bletchley and Bedford railway line for Mr Jackson. Yesterday afternoon he saw Abrahams in a yard close to the house where he and Morgan lodge (Mr Checkley’s farm at Lidlington) concealing something by the side of the wall. He confronted Abrahams who denied putting anything there. He turned up the earth and found the purse now produced containing 3 sovereigns and 2 half sovereigns. He asked where Abrahams got it. Abrahams claimed to have found the purse on his road from Littlebury. He immediately told Morgan. Charles Cripps, police constable at Lidlington – he went to the Bell at Marston and found from the landlady’s description that Abrahams had been there and changed half a sovereign. He overtook Abrahams on the road to Bedford and took him into custody. Abrahams said he was very sorry he had robbed Mr Morgan as he had been such a friend to him. He searched Abrahams and found 3 sovereigns, one half sovereign, 9 shillings and sixpence in silver and 4 pence in copper. Thomas Abrahams – “I am very sorry I took the money from Mr and Mrs Morgan have been more than a father or mother to me”.
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