QSR1847/2/5/13

Depositions and examination - Mary Anne Yourby, wife of John Yourby of Potton, labourer, charged with stealing one frock belonging to James Carr

31 March 1847

From: 1847 To: 1847

Bethia Carr – she lives with her father James Carr at Potton. On 6 February Mary Anne Yourby came into her father’s shop in the evening after dark and asked to look at some frocks for her daughter. The frock now produced is one she showed her. Mary Anne Yourby rolled it up and laid it on the floor, stooped down as if to tie up her shoe and then got up and went out of the shop. She missed the frock immediately and told her mother. They said nothing more about it for some time afterwards expecting to see it on her back. She went to Yourby’s mother’s house several times in hopes of seeing her and yesterday saw her with the frock on her back. She told her mother and they sent for PC Shaw. She went with him to Yourby’s house, waited until he made her pull the frock off and brought it away. She knows it by the pattern and by their private mark on the back. It was a second hand frock which her father brought down from London about 3 months earlier. James Carr – he bought the frock in London on 6 November 1846. He saw the private mark put on it and knows it to be his. John Shaw of Potton, police constable – on 23 March he was sent for by Mr Carr. He went to the house where Mary Anne Yourby lives and found her with the frock on her back. He took it from her and took her into custody. Mary Ann Yourby – she bought the frock about 5 or 6 weeks ago from a travelling woman and has worn it without any concealment a great many times since.

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Yourby, Mary Ann,
Yourby, John,
Carr, James,
Carr, Bethia,
Shaw, John

POTTON, stealing, clothing, shopkeeper