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Depositions of Noah Carver, labourer of Wrestlingworth. George Mayes, police constable of Saint Peter, Bedford. Elizabeth Feltwell, searcher at the Biggleswade lock up. Ann Carver, single woman of Wrestlingworth and Alfred Mayes, police constable of Potton. In the case of Sarah Church, George Wright and Margaret Wright accused of stealing a silk handkerchief and a knife.

12 October 1861

From: 1861 To: 1861

Noah Carver: on 17 September he was at the Potton statue and went into the Barley Mow. He saw the accused there. It was between 7 ad 8pm. He fell asleep for about a quarter of an hour whilst sitting in the Tap room. When he went to sleep he had a handkerchief about his neck and a knife and some money in his left hand trouser pocket. When he woke he missed the handkerchief, knife and money. He did not know how much money had been in his pocket. The accused were not in the room when he woke. He did not lend the knife to anyone. PC George Mayes: he was in the Barley Mow at Potton on 17 September. He was a handkerchief of a similar description round the neck of the last witness about half an hour before he missed it. The prosecutor was in the corner asleep. He left the house. The accused were there when he returned a quarter of an hour later. Elizabeth Feltwell: a searcher at the Biggleswade lock up. On 25 September she searched Margaret Wright in the lock up. Wright had taken her gown off and taken the handkerchief from a pocket in the gown. Wright said it was her husband’s silk handkerchief. Ann Carver: she knew the handkerchief belonged to her brother, Noah Carver. She knew it by the hemming as it was her own work and she had bought the handkerchief at Mr Shoeberry’s at Potton. She had seen the handkerchief on her brother about a quarter of an hour before he lost it. PC Alfred Mayes: he apprehended the 4 prisoner on 18 September on a charge of stealing 18 sovereigns from Robert Franklin. On searching them at Biggleswade he found several knives in Samuel Church’s bundle and pockets. He found the knife produced on Sarah Church. Statements of the accused: George Wright – on the Wednesday before they were committed his wife showed him a handkerchief and said she had bought it that would do as a silk handkerchief for him. He never bought anything for himself. Sarah Church – someone lent her the knife but she did not know who as she had some drink.

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Church, Sarah,
Wright, Margaret,
Wright, George,
Carver, Noah,
Carver, Ann,
Mayes, George,
Feltwell, Elizabeth,
Mayes, Alfred

WRESTLINGWORTH, BIGGLESWADE, POTTON, stealing, handkerchief, knife, lock ups, festivals & celebrations fairs