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Depostions and examination - William Garner of Leighton Buzzard charged wtih stealing a hemp sack and a hemp bag, value 1s 6d, from Thomas Sanders at Leighton Buzzard on 22 April 1847

23 April 1847

From: 1847 To: 1847

Thomas Sanders of Leighton Buzzard, victualler – on Wednesday April 21 he placed 3 sacks in his barn at about 7pm. The next morning his servant came to him in the field and said William Garner had run away with a sack and a bag. He does not know if the sack now produced is the same. He had some bags about his premises like the bag now produced but cannot say if it is one of them. Garner was in the taproom when he left home in the morning. Sophia Taylor, singlewoman – she lives at Mr Sanders’s and is his servant. She was upstairs yesterday morning when she saw Garner come in at the gates of the yard and gently close them after him. It was bout 9.30am. She went down and told her mistress. She knew Garner was a bad character and said she would go and watch him. She went into the yard and saw him go out with a bag under his arm with something (like a sack) in it. He did not have anything when he came into the yard. She went and told her mistress who went out after him. Mary Ann Sanders, wife of Thomas Sanders – about 9.30am Sophia Taylor told her Garner had left the yard with a bag belonging to her master. She went after Garner and called him. He ran away. She saw the bag under his arm. She saw Catherine Fable in the street and told her to follow him. Catherine Fable of Leighton Buzzard, singlewoman – yesterday morning she was going up the street when she met Mrs Sanders and Garner. She followed Garner into Mr Samuels yard and he went into a stable. She saw him throw down a bundle into the stable and leave. She told PC Edwards, went with him to the stable and showed him the bundle, which was out of sight from the door. William Edwards – he went to a stable in Samuels’ yard in Leighton yesterday morning and brought away the bundle. It consisted of the sack and the bag. Garner was in the street coming down towards Sanders’s and he took him into custody. He produces another bag he brought from Sanders’ barn. The marks are on the same as the bag he found at Samuels’. William Garner – yesterday morning Mr Sanders said he would forgive him if he would promise never to go on the ground again. He did not tell Sanders he had taken the bags. Sanders told him to go about his business and not trouble him again.

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Garner, William,
Sanders, Thomas,
Taylor, Sophia,
Sanders, Mary Ann,
Fable, Catherine,
Edwards, William

LEIGHTON BUZZARD, stealing, victualler, domestic servant, police constable