QSR1856/3/5/21c

Depositions of Jabez Bunce, gardener of Dunstable and Jeremiah Cuttriss, police constable of Dunstable. In the case of John Medcraft accused of stealing a thermoeter.

2 June 1856

From: 1856 To: 1856

Jabez Bunce: servant to Mr Benning, solicitor of Dunstable. He took care of the garden. There had been a thermometer in the greenhouse on the night of 24 May. On 27 May PC Cuttriss showed him a thermometer which he knew to be his master’s property. He then went to look in greenhouse and found the thermometer gone. PC Jeremiah Cuttriss: he searched the prisoner when he took him into custody on 26 May. He found a thermometer in his possession. The prisoner said a man had given it to him to sell. Statement of the accused: nothing.

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Medcraft, John,
Cuttriss, Jeremiah,
Bunce, Jabez,
Benning, Charles Stockdale

DUNSTABLE, stealing, gardener, solicitor