QSR1847/3/5/11

Depositions and examination - John Davis and William Baker [annotated that John Davis not on the charge]

30 April 1847

From: 1847 To: 1847

William Taylor of Kempston, labourer – he was working for Mrs Swannell in a field in Bromham. At 1pm he left work to go to dinner. He put on his coat which he had left under a hedge after breakfast and found his knife and handkerchief were missing. He told his companion. He was informed that 2 suspicious persons had gone along the road and had been seen taking some victuals from another person. He followed Baker and found on him the handkerchief and knife. Baker also gave him the hand steelyards which are the property of William Ibbs his fellow workman. John Bonney, parish constable of Stagsden – requests that John Davies may be committed until tomorrow at 10am when he will be prepared with further evidence against him on a charge of taking food from a basket belonging to John Baskerville. William Baker – “I did not take them. I only received them.”

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Davis, John,
Baker, William,
Taylor, William,
Ibbs, William,
Bonney, John,
Baskerville, John,
Swannell

KEMPSTON, BROMHAM, KEMPSTON, stealing, knife, handkerchief, food, farm labourer, parish constable