Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1837/4/5/14
  • Title
    Depositions and examination - Ann Green charged with stealing 3 sovereigns from Richard Impey
  • Date free text
    6 September 1837
  • Production date
    From: 1837 To: 1837
  • Scope and Content
    Richard Impey of Dunstable, bricklayer – he had money in a drawer in his bedroom. On Monday morning he put 6 sovereigns and a half in gold in a purse into the drawer. There were also 5 guineas in gold wrapped up near the purse. He locked the drawer and put the key into his pocket. About 6pm he returned from work and found the drawer unlocked and partly open so he could put his hand in. On examining the purse he missed 3 sovereigns. He suspected Ann Green and directed Lees the constable to apprehend her. Lees did so on Tuesday morning. When he was going to bed he examined the drawer carefully and found a key in it which unlocked the drawer as well as his own key. Robert Lees of Dunstable, police constable – last Tuesday morning he was informed by Richard Impey that he had been robbed of 3 sovereigns and he suspected Ann Green. He apprehended Green at Hockliffe in the Northampton Van. He brought Green and her luggage back to Dunstable where he searched her box and found a quantity of bonnet trimming, 3 1/2d in copper, a bill of parcels for 9s 4d and another bill for 6s 6d. He searched her reticule and found one sovereign, one half sovereign, 4 shillings in silver and 2 pence in copper. He was informed by the driver of the van that Green had paid 3s 6d for her fare. He asked her how much money she had when she came to Dunstable last Saturday, and she said £2 10s. She said she had received no money from anyone since then. On Tuesday morning he received the key now produced from Richard Impey. He has tried it and it unlocks Impey’s drawer from which the money was taken. He showed the key to Green who admitted it was hers. Joseph Sudborough of Dunstalbe, Tuscan and straw hat manufacturer – on Monday 4th about 9pm Ann Green came to his shop and purchased the several articles enumerated in the two bills now produced and paid 9s 4d and 6s 6d. For the first bill she gave him half a sovereign and for the second bill he gave her change for a sovereign. Sarah Pratt, wife of James Pratt of Dunstable, shoemaker – on Monday about 5.30pm she went to the house of her father Richard Impey to make his bed. Her father had left the key of the door with her in the morning. Ann Green went with her. They went upstairs together and made the beds together. Afterwards she went downstairs and was absent about 5 minutes. Ann Green remained in the room. When she left Green was sitting by the side of the drawers with her arm leaning on the drawer in which her father kept his money. They finished what they had to do and both left the house together. She left the key in the front door and went to her own house with Green. Where Green then went she does not know. When she [Pratt] returned to her father’s house she saw Ann Green come out of her father’s house. She then locked the door and kept the key in her pocket until her father returned from his work. Ann Green knew where her father kept his money, having often seen her mother put money there. Archibald Lockhart of Dunstable, draper – Ann Green came to her father’s shop on Monday evening about 8pm and purchased articles amounting to 4s 4 1/2d. He gave Green change for a sovereign. James Pratt of Dunstable, shoemaker – An Green was at his house on Monday afternoon. He asked her to give him some beer. She said she could not afford it as she had only 10s when she left Northampton, had paid 7s for the coach to Dunstable, and had only 3s to take her back. Ann Green – she never had the money and knows nothing of the key found in the drawer. She had £2 10s when she came from Northampton. Her mother gave her a sovereign. By saying to James Pratt that she had no money she meant she had no money in her pocket. Sarah Green, wife of Thomas Green of Dunstable [for the prisoner] – when her daughter Ann c came to her early on Saturday morning she asked if she was placed in a situation so that she could get a living. Her daughter said yes. She asked if she would be able to pay her rent and she said she had got a sovereign towards it. Before her daughter left she gave her some money (a sovereign), sufficient to make her comfortable.
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