QSR1856/3/5/22

Depositions of Betsy Abraham, wife of Thomas of Kempston, Thomas Tillyard, police constable of St Paul, Bedford and George Church of the parish of St Peter, Bedford. In the case of John Cowley accused of stealing a knife.

6 June 1856

From: 1856 To: 1856

Betsy Abraham: he had sat up until after 11pm on 29 February and got up about 6am the next morning. She missed part of a loaf of bread, some bacon and a knife. She had used the knife at supper. The window to the living room was open. It opened into the yard, and she did not think it had been open for 5 years. A pane of glass had been taken out and was lying on the ground. A person could have put there hand through the place it had been taken from and opened the window. PC Thomas Tillyard: on 22 April he went to the house the prisoner had occupied. He found a knife. The door had been locked and the landlord Mr Church had unlocked it. George Church: he resided in Tavistock Street, Bedford. He remembered he had met Tillyard at the house occupied by the prisoner in Hawes Street with the purpose of going into the house with him.

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Cowley, John,
Abraham, Betsy,
Tillyard, Thomas,
Church, George

KEMPSTON, Bedford Hawes Street, stealing, knife