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Depositions and examination - George Solesbury

5 May 1847

From: 1847 To: 1847

William Coombs of Silver Street, St Paul, Bedford – yesterday he went to execute a search warrant at the house and premises of William Clark. He found nothing there. He had previously been to Mr Samuel Paybody’s, who keeps the Red Lion in St Lloyes. There he found the navigator’s wheelbarrow now produced. He also found a stable wheelbarrow there. He was searching for 3 wheelbarrows, the properties of 3 different people, a wash tray, a large boiler, a saucepan, and 2 pails. Samuel Paybody of the Red Lion Inn, St Lloyes, St Paul, Bedford, victualler – on Saturday 24 April Soulsbury was in his yard. He saw the navigator wheelbarrow now produced in his yard and heard Soulsbury sell it to William Clark. William Clark of All Hallows Lane, St Paul, yeoman – he was in Mr Paybody’s yard on 24 April and found Soulsbury there. Soulsbury asked him for 6s for the navigator’s wheelbarrow and he bought it for 3s. He left it at Mr Paybody’s yard. Joel Lancaster, son of Mary Lancaster of Wootton, widow – he saw the navigator’s barrow in his mother’s yard on Wednesday 21 April. He missed it the next Monday. The barrow is his mother’s property. He saw it at Mr Paybody’s yard on Monday 3 May. George Soulsbury – when he was coming to Bedford in the morning of 24 April he met a man on the road with a barrow loaded. The man asked him to help him along with it. The man said he was going further than Bedford and wanted him to buy the barrow. He gave him half a crown for it. The man said his name was Sanders and he came from Marston, and that he was going to Newmarket on the railroad.

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Solesbury, George,
Coombs, William,
Paybody, Samuel,
Clark, William,
Lancaster, Joel,
Lancaster, Mary

BEDFORD, Bedford St.Paul, St.Loyes Bedford, WOOTTON, Bedford All Hallows Lane, stealing, household goods, Chief Constable, victualler, Bedford Red Lion