Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1848/4/5/9
  • Title
    Depositions and examination - John Crouch charged with stealing a sack
  • Date free text
    30 August 1848
  • Production date
    From: 1848 To: 1848
  • Scope and Content
    James Harradine of Southill - he keeps cows. Until last Friday he had a sack with his name written in large letters upon it which he used to put over the cows’ water tub in the day time and to hang up in the stable at night. He hung it up in the stable on the Thursday evening 4th May and by 6am on Friday it was gone. John Crouch had been working for him a few days before and he suspected him of stealing it. He heard the sack had been left at the White Hart Tap at Shefford and he went there on the Saturday evening. The landlord gave him the sack and told him that Crouch had left it there. Crouch has absconded from Southill. [taken 10 May and resworn 30 August 1848] Rosina Waller of Shefford, spinster - on a Friday morning last May which is plait market at Shefford John Crouch came to the White Hart Tap kept by her father at about 7am. Crouch brought an empty sack and asked her to take care of it until he came for it. Crouch returned between 10 and 11am and asked for the sack. Crouch said Mr Atterbury claimed the sack but it belonged to Mr Harradine. Crouch took it across to the Black Swan, then brought it back and left it with her and said he would come for it again. She put the sack in the cellar. About 1pm her father came home and she told him. She had looked at the sack and saw it had Mr Harradine’s name on it. She was not at home when the police constable came for it. She thinks it was the same sack as the one now produced by PC Cook. Charles Parker Cook of Northill, police constable - on the Saturday after the robbery he went with Mr Harradine to the White Hart in Shefford and received the sack from Waller the landlord which he now produces. He had a warrant to apprehend Crouch but Crouch has been absent until he was taken yesterday. James Harradine - he has no doubt the sack is the one he lost. It is exactly the same as his other sacks. John Crouch - has nothing to say.
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