Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1847/3/5/22/b
  • Title
    Depositions and examination - Thomas Peck the younger charged 2 leather straps from Thomas Tomalin
  • Date free text
    18 May 1847
  • Production date
    From: 1847 To: 1847
  • Scope and Content
    Thomas Tomalin of Luton, baker – in February 1846 he had some seat straps made by Francis Field. He lost hem the next week. He left his cart at Bury Farm in Luton, which he occupies, and the next morning the straps were gone. He told PC Millard. Peck was then at work for Jonathan Seymour who holds the next premises to his at the Bury. He had the straps punched as high as they could buckle them. On Wednesday night 12 May PC Millard showed him the straps now produced. They are punched in exactly the same way and he has no doubt they are his. John Millard of Luton, police constable – about 14 or 15 months ago he received information that Thomas Tomalin had had 4 new straps stolen from his cart. On Wednesday he searched Peck’s house on a search warrant for another supposed felony and found the 4 straps now produced in the stair hole under some rubbish. Tomalin believed them to be his. He also showed them to Francis Field a saddler at Luton who identified them as being the straps he had made for Tomalin which had been lost. Thomas Peck – he found the straps in Castle Street, Luton, about this time last year. He told the first man he met in the street, Thomas Abrahams, that he had found them. Sometime late he told Joseph Dancer, when he was putting some new straps to his cart. Francis Field of Luton, saddler – on 2 February 1846 he made a set of seat straps for Thomas Tomalin. Soon afterwards Tomalin told him they were lost and ordered a fresh set. There were from 4 to 6 holes in the first set when Tomalin had them. Tomalin sent them to him again to punch some more holes up to the buckle. He punched them as near to the buckle as possible. The straps now produced appear to be punched in exactly the same manner. He never punched any other seat straps in this way. He believes the straps to be of his make.
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