QSR1896/3/5/4a

Depositions of Caroline Filby, John Thomas Jeffs and William Chamberlain In the case of Henry Osborn alias Stevens alias Halliwell indicted for stealing one silver watch value 3 shillings and 6 pence the property of Richard Filby.

1 June 1896

From: 1896 To: 1896

Caroline Filby of 3 Liverpool Rd, wife of Richard Filby: Richard and Caroline Filby take in lodgers. On Monday 1 June the Witness saw the watch produced which belongs to her husband on the watch stand in the kitchen. Between 10 and 11 a.m. she left the house for a few minutes. She had not been gone for more than 4 minutes when her daughter fetched her. When she returned to her house she saw the Prisoner standing at her front door. It is only a few yards from the kitchen door. The front door was open. There was no one in the house. The Prisoner told the Witness he wanted lodgings for himself and a friend for about 3 months, as he was at work on the Great Northern. He left saying he would call again at 3 p.m. He did not come again and the Witness saw nothing more of him until he was in custody. After the Prisoner had left about one and a half to two hours the Witness missed the watch. She did not see it again until it was produced to her by Sgt. Chamberlain. The watch produced is the one belonging to the Witness’s husband and she values it at 3 shillings and 6 pence. John Thomas Jeffs, assistant to his father, a watchmaker: The Prisoner came to the Witness’s shop on Monday 1st or Tuesday 2nd June – he cannot say which. The Prisoner showed the Witness the watch produced and asked the Witness if he would buy it. The Witness weighed the case and gave the Prisoner 10 shillings for it as old silver. The Witness subsequently handed the watch to the Police. The Witness identifies the Prisoner as the man who brought the watch. William Chamberlain, Detective Sergeant at Luton Borough Police: On 3 June the Witness received information of the loss from 3 Liverpool Rd. of a watch which was sold at the last Witness’s shop and afterwards identified by Caroline Filby. On 10 June the Witness charged the Prisoner at Luton with stealing an old silver watch from no. 3 Liverpool Rd on 1 June, the property of Richard Filby, value 3 shillings and 6 pence. The Prisoner replied “Yes”. Statement of the Defendant, Henry Osborn: “I have nothing to say. I call no witnesses.”

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Filby, Caroline,
Jeffs, John Thomas,
Chamberlain, William

stealing, watches