QSR1863/1/5/21

Depositions of Charles Tysoe, shoemaker of Turvey. Elizabeth Warren, wife of John, mason of Turvey. Mary Tysoe, wife Reuben, plumber and glazier of Turvey. George Paine, grocers assistant of Turvey. Elizabeth Harley, wife of Gillaway, baker of Turvey. James Kightley , shoemaker of Turvey and George Mardlin, police constable of Turvey. In the case of Annie Foskett accused of stealing money and the purse of Charles Tysoe.

20 September 1862

From: 1862 To: 1863

Charles Tysoe: a shoemaker at Turvey and the accused also lived at Turvey. The prisoner lodged at John Mardley’s house. Foskett used to go to her aunt’s house adjoined his. His house did not face the street. The workshop faced the passage. He saw the accused on 2 September when she came to the shop window and called him out. She asked him to lend her half a sovereign as her husband was not at home and that she would not need it for more than a few hours. He let her have the money. He got the money from the house and she followed him in. He took the money from a shelf inside the door and put his purse back. The prisoner saw this. He next saw her on Wednesday when she went to her aunts. She said she had the money and would bring it to him in a few minutes. On Thursday between 7 and 8am he put 8 shillings in his purse. He then had 33 shillings, a sovereign, 2 half crowns, 3 two shilling pieces, 2 shillings, 2 keys and a bent ring were in the purse. He saw the prisoner and told her he wanted the money to pay Mr Field. She told him she had the money at the lodging and would fetch it in a few minutes. Directly after this he went into the house to fetch his dinner and took it into the bake house. The house was unlocked and the key in the door outside. The house was empty when he went to the Bakehouse. He was away an hour. When he got back the prisoner came into the yard with her dinner and said she would bring the money up directly. He saw her again and she returned the half sovereign. About 4pm that afternoon he looked for his purse and found it gone. He next saw the purse about 1pm on Friday in his father’s garden. The garden goes opposite the accused’s aunt’s house. The 2 keys and bent ring were inside it. He went with the policeman to Foskett’s lodgings and he told her he had found his purse and he thought she knew something about it. Elizabeth Warren: Mrs Foskett lodged at her house in the first week of September. On 30 August Foskett asked if she could settle with her on the Tuesday. She paid her 5 shillings on the Tuesday. Foskett spent the days at her aunts and would go at 9am. On 4 September the prisoner came back at 10.40am. Foskett went to her aunts on Friday at 9am and was gone about three quarters of an hour. PC Mardlin asked the prisoner if she had spent some money the day before and she said she had not. The prisoner had changed a sovereign at Mistress Pain that John had given her. She had paid for herself in silver and her aunt gave her a sovereign to pay for some sugar and grocery. Mary Tysoe: mother of the prosecutor. She went out about 7am on 4 September and went back about 12. She stayed at hoe all afternoon. Mrs Foskett came in that afternoon and nobody else. She laid his [her sons] purse up on Monday and on Thursday afternoon she missed it. She was not wearing her glasses. Reuben Tysoe: father of the prosecutor. On 5 September he went to where the purse was found and it was not there then. George Paine: assistant to Mary Ann Pain, who kept the grocer’s shop at Turvey. Mrs Foskett came to her aunt’s shop about 11am on 4 September and bought a few things. She paid with a sovereign. Elizabeth Horley: Mrs Foskett came to the shop about 10.45 on the morning and bought some flour and peppermint. Foskett paid with a shilling and asked if she could pay her some silver for some gold. She told her no. James Kightley: a shoemaker working for the prosecutor. He was in the shop on 4 September. He saw Mrs Foskett about 9am and the prosecutor went and spoke to her. He sae the prosecutor take his dinner to the bake house and thought him to have been gone about an hour. He saw nobody come down the passage in that tie. After the prosecutor came back Mrs Foskett came with her dinner and heard her say she would bring it out. He saw her bring half a sovereign. PC George Mardlin: on 4 September he had a conversation with the prosecutor and on 5 September the prosecutor came with him to look to where a purse was laying in his garden just opposite the defendant’s aunt’s window. He saw the purse and went to Mrs Fosketts lodgings with the prosecutor. The prosecutor told her he had found his purse and she asked where. Tysoe told her she must know something of it as only she and his mother knew where his money was. She said “you don’t accuse me of taking the money?” and he replied “yes I do”. She said she had not had the money. Mardlin asked her if she had changed some money and she said she had not, nor had she spent any. She told him he could go to all the tradesmen in the village and enquire. On 8 September he went to the magistrates and Foskett told the magistrate she had spent some money and had a sovereign from her aunt and that he could ask her aunt if it was true. He saw her aunt and the defendant attempted to run away. He held on to her wrist but she got away. When she got near her aunt she told her aunt to say she had lent her a sovereign. Statement of the accused: the reason she borrowed half a sovereign was so a person would bring her some things from Bedford. When she got to her lodging the person had gone. She put the half sovereign away thinking she would take it back when she went up again. Her landlady asked her for 5 shillings. She had always kept her lodging paid up. In the afternoon she went home again. She went up again on Wednesday and stayed the whole day and she went to Charles Tysoe’s in the afternoon whilst Tysoe, his brother and Kightley were at tea. She did not see him again until Thursday when she was going to Mr Skimington [?] the butcher to pay for a piece of meat. He was out and Mrs Skinmington could not tell her how much, so she said she would call again and took half a pound of suet. She went home and as she past Tysoe’s shop window he came out and reminded her of the money. She said she would bring it directly. She called at Mrs Horless for some flour and she asked her if she had any change. She told Horless she had little silver. She went to her lodgings and said to Mrs Warren that she was going to pay Mr Paines to fetch a few things. As she came from Mr Paines she fetched the half sovereign and went and paid Mr Skinington 4 shillings. She gave Charles his half sovereign in a bit of paper and told him she was much obliged. Her aunt told her there was some money lost and Charles told her he had lost all but his half sovereign. He said he had gone to look for it to pay for his coat and missed it. She stayed whilst they looked for it. On Friday she asked Charles if he had heard anything of the money and the policeman asked her what money she had spent she told him to go to the tradesmen to find out.

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Foskett, Annie,
Tysoe, Charles,
Warren, Elizabeth,
Warren, John,
Tysoe, Mary,
Tysoe, Reuben,
Paine, George,
Harley, Elizabeth,
Kightley, James,
Mardlin, George

TURVEY, stealing, shoemaker, mason, plumber, glazier, shoemaker, baker, grocer's assistant