QSR1862/4/5/9

Depositions of Edward Fuller, gardener of Beeston and his wife Ellen Mary. Thomas Woodward, police constable of Biggleswade. In the case of James Salt accused of stealing 2 sheets.

24 September 1862

From: 1862 To: 1862

Edward Fuller: he had sheets for drying onion seed on. James Salt had worked for him about a fortnight previously. The defendant left his service on the previous Saturday night. On the Sunday PC Woodward brought the sheets to him to identify. He knew 2 of the sheets to be his but could not swear to the third sheet. The sheets were worth 2 shillings a piece. PC Thomas Woodward: he found the sheets at the house of the prisoner at Potton. He apprehended the prisoner and said he bought to sheets but would not say who from. 2 sheets were on the bed and the third lying in the room. Statement of the accused: he brought 3 sheets off 2 men as he returned from Mr Fuller’s house and gave 18 pence a piece for them. They used to have onion sheets to sleep on in the barn at Mr Fullers. There was another man who had come to Mr Fuller a week ago. He did not know the men he bought the sheets from.

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Salt, James,
Fuller, Edward,
Fuller, Ellen Mary,
Woodward, Thomas

Beeston, BIGGLESWADE, stealing, gardener