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Depositions - James Barlow and Wiliam Gue, charged with stealing one calico shrit from Isaac Harlow

11 June 1847

From: 1847 To: 1847

Isaac Harlow of Ravensden, labourer – he was at work in the barn that morning about 9am. His wife had been washing and had hung the clothes on the hedge next to the road to dry. She missed a shirt from the hedge and told him. He went along the road and hearing that 2 men had gone past he followed them until he overtook them at Mr Smithson’s house at Colmworth. He asked them to go back with him and they agreed. Mr Smithson asked what was the matter and he told him he thought the men had his shirt. They denied knowing anything about it. He searched Barlow and found the shirt tied up in a handkerchief under his arm. Barlow said he found the shirt on the roadside. James Smithson – he was in front of his house at about 10am when the 2 prisoners came along the road and asked him to give them something for they were in great distress. He gave them a halfpenny. Isaac Harlow came up and told him what he had lost. He told Harlow to search them on the spot. They did so and found the shirt on Barlow. They went down to Wilden with the prisoners.

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Barlow, James,
Gue, William,
Harlow, Isaac,
Smithson, James

RAVENSDEN, COLMWORTH, stealing, shirt, clothing, vagrancy