QSR1837/4/5/19

Depositions and examintion - John Impey of Shefford charged wtih breaking and entering the house of Henry Impey and stealing 2 copper tea kettles, one saucepan, one pair of candlesticks, 12 knives, 12 forks, and 12 brass cocks belonging to Henry Impey and Ann Impey

12 September 1837

From: 1837 To: 1837

Henry Impey of Shefford, brazier - on Thursday night 7th Sept after 10.30pm he locked the door leading from the shop into the street and the door fromt eh shop into the living room. He had previously nailed up the window opening from the living room into the yard. He went to bed before 11. About 6.15 on Friday morning he came down and found the door between the house and the living room open. He then found that the door between the front shop and the warehouse was also unbolted, and the door from the warehouse into the street was partly open. It had been fastened inside so that nobody could open it from without. The door from the warehouse to the yard was also unbolted and the nail with which the window into the yard was fastened had been drawn by somebody putting their hand through a pane of glass which had been broken. He saw some footmarks in a little flower bed under the window. He looked about and missed 2 copper tea kettles, a saucepan, a pair of candlesticks, some knives and forks and some brass cocks, and also a coat, waistcoat and hat which were in the house the day before. He suspected his brother John had stolen the things and went directly up to London. He went to the George in Smithfield and saw his brother there. He procured a police officer and took his brother into custody. He found the coat, waistcoat and hat on his brother’s person. There was a basket standing by him containing the metal tea pot and the metal spoons now produced. The wagon was standing in the yard and the waggoner handed him down a sack containing the other articles now produced, and also the brass kettles, the fire irons and the pair of bellows. He knows them all by the marks on them, which are all his mother’s or his own. They are the joint property of himself and his mother – they are in partnership. They took his brother and the articles to the watchhouse and he admitted he had gone into his mother’s premises and taken the goods. John Impey - "no sir I shall not say anything at present"

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Impey, John,
Impey, Henry,
Impey, Ann

SHEFFORD, London, breaking & entering, burglary, household goods, cutlery, brazier, waggoner