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Depositions and examination - John Wood

30 December 1835

From: 1835 To: 1836

John McCreadie, a native of Scotland, a sailor – he arrived at Dunstable last night on his way from London to Liverpool. He had a live parrot in his possession, and a new pair of linen trousers tied up in a blue cotton handkerchief. He lodged at the Black Horse public house at Dunstable. In the evening about 6pm he and Wood went out into the street. Wood left him and said he would return shortly. When Wood did not return, suspecting he would take his parrot he went back to the Black Horse and discovered the parrot was gone. He saw the parrot at the Swan with Two Necks public house in the possession of someone who said he had bought it from a sailor chap who had gone out. He went to his lodgings and found his bundle with his trousers and handkerchief had also been stolen by Wood. He then went to the police constables who went in search of Wood. He knows the trousers now produced by police constable George Gray to be his by the piece of string in the waistband and the handkerchief by a piece torn off the corner. George Gray of Dunstable, police constable – from information received from John McCreadie yesterday he went to Hockliffe in search of Wood and apprehended him at the Bell public house. Wood had the bundle he now produces containing a pair of linen trousers and a blue cotton handkerchief in his possession. Wood said they belonged to him. John Wood – he did the job. He took the parrot and sold it because he was hungry. He also took the trousers and handkerchief at the same time.

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Wood, John,
McCreadie, John

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