QSR1892/3/5/2

Depositions of Ann Mays - Confectioneries shop at Sandy; Caleb Marsden - Police Constable Stationed at Sandy In the case of James Robinson alias James Smith accused of feloniously stealing one pair of spectacles of the value of 10 shillings the property of Ann Mays.

18th May 1892

From: 1892 To: 1892

Deposition of Ann Mays on her Oath saith as follows: I am a widow and keep a Confectioneries shop at Sandy. One Friday 6th May 1892 about 4 p. m. I took off my spectacles and laid them on the counter of the shop and waited upon a little girl and as the girl was leaving the shop the prisoner came in and offered me some shoe laces for sale and asked me several times to buy some. I refused to buy any and prisoner left - shortly after had gone before any one else came into the shop I missed my spectacles and gave information to P. SC. Marsden. About an hour afterwards P. C. Marsden brought prisoner and spectacles to my shop when I identified both – the spectacles I now produce are the same and are worth 10/-. Depositions of Caleb Marsden on his Oath saith: I am a Police Constable stationed at Sandy. On Friday 6th May 1892 from information received I went in search of the prisoner and found him at the Greyhound Inn Sandy about 5.15 p.m. I said to him “Have you any glasses about you” he replied “No” I then searched him and found the glasses now produced in his inside pocket and said to him “How do you account for these” he replied “I bought them” I said “where” he then replied “I don’t know” I then took him and the glasses to the prosecutrix who identified them as her property in the presence of the prisoner the prisoner then said “They are my property I bought them at Croydon” I then charged him with stealing them and took him into custody - he gave the name of James Robinson. Statement of Accused “I have nothing to say”

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Mays, Ann,
Marsden, Caleb,
Robinson, James,
Smith, James

SANDY, Public House, confectioners, police constable