QSR1861/1/5/15a-16a

Depositions of Mary Judge, wife of Mark, clockmaker of Potton. In the case of James Salt & David Newell accused of stealing a clock.

8 December 1860

From: 1860 To: 1861

Mary Judge: her husband was Mark Judge, clock and watch maker of Potton. Last Saturday, about 12 o’clock her husband came home and the 2 prisoners followed him into the shop. Newell gave her husband direction to go to Wrestlingworth to clean his clock and whilst they were talking she Salt slip round the screen and she heard the chain of a clock jingle. She went behind the screen and missed the clock. She accused salt of taking it. Salt did not speak but went out of the shop. She told her husband she suspected Salt and he went after him returning a minute or two later with Salt and the clock. They took the clock and the prisoners went away together in the direction of Sutton. The prisoners were a little tipsy. Statements of the accused: Salt – he never went into the house and had not touched the clock. Newell – he asked Judge to come and clean his clock and he said he would on Monday or Tuesday. He then went home with Judge who had some clocks and watches he wanted to show him. The house was full of people and the door stood open. He then went about his business and met with Salt and they went home together.

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Salt, James,
Newell, David,
Judge, Mary,
Judge, Mark

POTTON, WRESTLINGWORTH, stealing, clocks, clockmaker