QSR1837/3/5/8

Depositions and examination - James Panter charged wtih stealing a shift from Susanna Odell

1 May 1837

From: 1837 To: 1837

Susanna Odell of Cranfield, widow – last Thursday morning (27 April) about 10am she saw one of he shifts which had been washed hanging out to dry on a hedge in her garden. Then there was a storm and the shift was blown down. At 2pm it was gone. That morning he went with Goodrid the constable to Panter’s house to look at a shift, which she is sure is the one she lost. James Goodrid, constable of Cranfield – he went by order of Mr Beard the magistrate to search for the lost shift at James Panter’s house. He found it hanging on the bed chamber door. Susanna Odell claimed it as hers. James Panter - he picked up the shift against his mother’s gate and thought it was hers.

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Panter, James,
Odell, Susannah,
Goodrid, James

CRANFIELD, stealing, clothing, constable