QSR1860/2/5/1b

Depositions of Joseph Rush, shoemaker of Woburn. Samuel Rush, shoemaker of Woburn and Jane Clark, single woman of Milton Bryan. In the case of Alfred Spacey accused of stealing a pair of womens boots.

13 March 1860

From: 1860 To: 1860

Joseph Rush: the prisoner was his apprentice and his time expired on 15 March but had continued to work with him as a journeyman. About 17 March he missed a pair of women’s boots from his shop. The value of the boots was 7 shillings and 6 pence. On 26 March he saw the boots in the possession of Jane Clark, servant to Mr John Cooke at Milton Bryan. The prisoner had no authority to take any boots to her. The prisoner was of Milton Bryan and had been apprenticed to him by the parish, with the fund being provided out of a charity estate there. Samuel Rush: son of Joseph Rush and he resided with him. He recollected that on the 15 March, the day the prisoner’s apprenticeship expired, he was in his father’s shop. He saw him take a pair of women’s boots off the counter and fold them up in a handkerchief. He did not know if he had orders to take them. Jane Clark: servant to Mr Cook of Milton Bryan. She recollected that on the evening of 16 March she saw the prisoner when he came to the house and he brought her the boots. She asked him the price and said they were all right. He went away leaving the boots with her. She saw him in Woburn on 19 March and asked him how much the boots were. He told her 8 shillings. On Sunday last she paid him 8 shillings and 2 pence for mending some other boots. Statement of the accused: “I am guilty.”

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Spacey, Alfred,
Rush, Joseph,
Rush, Samuel,
Clark, Jane

WOBURN, MILTON BRYAN, stealing, boots, shoemaker