QSR1856/2/5/1a

Depositions of John Norman, labourer of Clapham and William Byers Graham, superintendent of police of Sharnbrook. In the case of Perry Kendall, labourer of Oakley, accused of stealing a shovel.

15 March 1856

From: 1856 To: 1856

John Norman: on 3 March, after he had finished work, he tucked his shovel under a temporary bridge across the railroad at Oakley. He missed it on the 4 March. Superintendent William Byers Graham: on the evening of 5 March he found the prisoner at his brother’s house at Wellingborough. He found the shovel standing by his side. He asked the prisoner if it belonged to him and he said it belonged to man outside the door. There was no man there. He apprehended the prisoner on another charge. After he had been apprehended, the prisoner said in reply to an observation made by his brother and nephew, that it was the only shovel he had bought.

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Kendall, Perry,
Norman, John,
Graham, William Byers

OAKLEY, Wellingborough, SHARNBROOK, CLAPHAM, stealing, shovel