Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1848/3/5/29
  • Title
    Depositions - William White charged with stealing 5 eggs from Thomas Parrish.
  • Date free text
    23 June 1848
  • Production date
    From: 1848 To: 1848
  • Scope and Content
    Thomas Parrish of Luton, farmer - on 16 June Joseph Whittemore told him they were losing eggs from a nest under the cart hovel. Since then they have always kept marked eggs in the nest and have lost several. On 22 June they found all but one egg gone. On 23 Whittemore brought him 3 eggs he had marked with ink which he said he had taken from White. He gave them to PC Millard, who found 2 eggs in White’s house marked with a fine black lead pencil on both ends which he can swear to as his. Joseph Whittemore of Offley, labourer - he works for Mr Parrish of Wigmore Hall near Luton. On 16 he told his master they were losing eggs. He has watched the nest since then but though they lost eggs he could not find anyone out. On 22 June he found there was only one egg left. On 23 June he marked 4 more with ink, laid them in the nest and watched. White came up, looked around, stooped down, took the eggs and put them in his right hand jacket pocket. As White was getting over a horse rake one fell out, White ate the yolk and threw away the shell over the top of a cart in which he was lying concealed. He followed White to Crawley’s brick kiln where he works for Mr Robert Smith and asked him for the eggs. White gave them to him. White said he would go and lay them in the nest and would stand a shilling if he would say nothing about them. He took the eggs and gave them to Mr Parrish. John Millard of Luton, police constable - on 23 June he went to White’s house at High Town. He saw 2 eggs lying in the window for sale. He found they were both marked at each end, corresponding with the description he had received from Mr Parrish. He took the eggs to Mr Parrish who identified them and gave him 3 more eggs marked with ink. He took White into custody.
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