QSR1837/1/5/26

Depositions and examination - John Ginn

23 December 1836

From: 1836 To: 1837

Hannah Bailey, wife of John Bailey of Toddington, retail beer seller – Ginn has been a lodger in their house for about 5 weeks. About 10am last Monday she missed a cloak from her box in her sleeping room. Ginn was then in bed in his room which is close by. She believes her cloak was safe the night before. Her husband was in the garden and she called to him and told him what she had lost. Her husband came upstairs and while they were looking about Ginn left the house and has never returned. She gave 35s for the cloak. The cloak produced is the one she lost. John Bailey of Toddington, retail beer seller – his wife informed him she had lost her cloak. While they were looking for it Ginn left the house. As Ginn did not come back in the evening he suspected him, and knowing Ginn had some connections at Newport he thought Ginn may have gone there to pawn it. On Wednesday he went to Newport and succeeded in finding Ginn with the help of the constable there. He taxed him with stealing the cloak. Ginn said he would give the cloak back if he would not prosecute. He asked Ginn where it was but Ginn refused to tell him unless he would make it up. He went to William Ward’s, a panwbroker’s, at Newport and described Ginn. Ward shoed him a cloak which had been pawned on Tuesday night for 9s – it is his wife’s. After he had found the cloak he did say to Ginn that if he would pay the constable and pay for any damage to the cloak and satisfy him for any damage, and satisfy him for his trouble, he would make it up. He asked for £2 and 9s paid at the pawnbroker’s to redeem the cloak. Ginn then sent for a woman to come and pay the money. A women came but said she had no money and Ginn then said he must abide by it. William Ward of Newport Pagnel, pawnbroker – on Tuesday Ginn came to his shop and offered to pawn the cloak now produced. He lent Ginn 9s on it. He knew Ginn before, and had sold him some goods. On Wednesday the constable of Newport and Bailey came to his shop and asked if a cloak had been pawned by someone they described. He produced the cloak to them and Bailey claimed it. John Ginn – nothing to say.

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Ginn, John,
Bailey, John,
Bailey, Hannah,
Ward, William

TODDINGTON, stealing, clothing, cloak, beer retailer, pawnbroker