QSR1846/4/5/28

Depositions and examination - Mary Ann Hardwick charged with stealing a pair of boots from Thomas Woodman

3 August 1846

From: 1846 To: 1846

Thomas Woodman of Luton, shoemaker – he can swear the boots produced are his property. He missed them on Wednesday morning 29 July. He never sold them to anyone. They were brought to him by Charles Pearson. Charles Pearson of Luton – he is a patten clog maker. Understanding that Hardwick had sold some boots and that Mr Woodman had lost a pair he went to Eleanor Bradford who told him she had bought a pair of boots. She showed them to him. He took one of them and showed it to Mr Woodman, who went with him and fetched both the boots. Mr Woodman identified them as his property. Eleanor Bradford of Luton, widow – Hardwick came to her on 24 July and said she had a pair of boots which did not fit her little boy, and that if they fitted her boy she would give them to her for 3s 6d. She bought the boots from Hardwick. She told Hardwick she would not be able to pay her all at once. Hardwick said she would take it any way she could pay her. Elizabeth Leadbetter of Luton – on 21 July Hardwick came to the house of her son-in-law Thomas Woodman to buy a pair of shoes. She had a little boy with her. She had a pair of boots which fitted the boy and asked Hardwick for the money. Hardwick said it did not matter about that as the boy’s master would pay for them. The boots produced are the boots she sold to Huckle.

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Hardwick, Mary Ann,
Woodman, Thomas,
Pearson, Charles,
Bradford, Eleanor,
Leadbetter, Elizabeth

LUTON, stealing, boots, shoemaker