QSR1838/3/5/26

Depositions and examination - Eleanor Harris

2 July 1838

From: 1838 To: 1838

Sophia Waterfield, wife of Samuel Waterfield of Dunstable, straw hat manufacturer – the two pieces of needlework produced are her property. She worked them when she was at school. She missed them about 9 months ago. The 3 pieces of ribbon are hers – she has some that matches it, and has had it for 9 years. In the pieces of patchwork now produced there are several pieces of printed cotton she knows to be her property – she has dresses of the same patterns. She saw present on 27 June when Robert Lees, police constable at Dunstable, searched Eleanor Harris’s box and found the articles. Harris was formerly her servant. Harris claimed the articles as her own, and said the ribbon and printed cotton were given her by her grandmother, and the needlework by her mother. The property is of the value of 2s. Robert Lees of Dunstable, police constable – on Wednesday 27 June he searched the box of Eleanor Harris, servant to Mr Samuel Waterfield of Dunstable, at Mr Waterfield’s house. He found the needlework, ribbon and pieces of patchwork now produced. Harris was present and claimed the articles were her property.

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Harris, Eleanor,
Waterfield, Sophia,
Waterfield, Samuel,
Lees, Robert

DUNSTABLE, stealing, crafts needlework, ribbons, fabrics, cotton, straw hat manufacturer, police constable