QSR1846/3/5/2

Depositions - Frederick Mead, charged with stealing a leaden weight from Ann Clark

17 April 1846

From: 1846 To: 1846

Ann Clark of Dunstable, widow – she lives at the Crown Inn at Dunstable. On Thursday 16 April about 8.40pm she missed a leaden weight which was hung on the back door of the house to swing it. She went and asked Serjeant William Current if it was there when he came in. He believed it was. Mark Lewis the parish constable was there. They looked at the door. The string was cut and the weight gone. The weight produced is the one she lost. Mark Lewis, constable of the parish of Dunstable – he was at the Crown Inn when Mrs Clark said she had lost a weight from the back door. She said she would know it again if she saw it. He went to Mr Librey the ironmonger’s and asked if they had bought a leaden weight. His son William Limbrey said he had just bought one for 4d from Frederick Mead. He found Mead and took him to Mr Limbrey’s. Limbrey’s son identified him as the person he had bought the weight from. He took the weight to Mrs Clark and she identified it. William Limbrey of Dunstable – he lives with his father, who is a tinman and brazier. On Thursday Frederick Mead sold him the leaden weight now produced for 4d.

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Mead, Frederick,
Clark, Ann,
Current, William,
Lewis, Mark,
Limbrey, William

DUNSTABLE, stealing, lead, Dunstable Crown, parish constable, tinman, brazier