QSR1857/3/5/11a

Depositions of Benjamin Billington, grocer of Dunstable and PC Jeremiah Cuttriss of Dunstable. In the case of John Burrows accused of stealing a wrapper.

8 June 1857

From: 1857 To: 1857

Benjamin Billington: a grocer of Union Street, Dunstable. On 9 May a piece of coarse wrapper was stolen from his yard. On 2 June he saw the wrapper in the possession of PC Cuttriss. He knew it by a piece of string attached to it. PC Jeremiah Cuttriss: on 2 June he searched the prisoner’s house and found the wrapper in the bedroom. Statement of the accused: his wife had the piece of wrapper before they married and he had been married for going on 6 years.

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Burrows, John,
Billington, Benjamin,
Cuttriss, Jeremiah

DUNSTABLE, stealing, grocer