Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1895/2/5/PS2
  • Title
    Depositions and pleas of defendants - Frederick Taylor and Cornelius Maher, of no fixed place of abode, charged with stealing a cotton shirt (value 1s 6d) from Thomas Mayes at Knotting on 10 April 1895. Dealt with summarily at Sharnbrook Petty Sessions [Originally filed in QSR Midsummer 1896]
  • Date free text
    11 April 1895
  • Production date
    From: 1895 To: 1895
  • Scope and Content
    Mary Mayes, wife of Thomas Mayes of Knotting – on Wednesday 10 April about 10.30am she hung one of her husband’s shirts to dry on a hedge in their garden. About 12.30 she noticed it was gone. She saw a man going on the Rushden Road towards Sharnbrook. She went to her neighbour George Lamb and told him of her loss. George lamb of Knotting, gamekeeper – he was in his garden digging and saw the prisoner Maher coming along the road from Rushden. Maher loitered about. When Maher saw him he started to whistle. He turned round and saw Taylor coming away from the gate leading into Mayes’ garden, putting something into his coat on the right hand side. He ran after Maher and caught him up. A few minutes later Mrs Mayes told him a shirt had been stolen. He rode on his machine to Sharnbrook and gave information to the police. Ebenezer Matthews of Sharnbrook, police constable – from information received he went along the Rushden Road from Sharnbrook and saw the 2 prisoners lying on the grass by the side of the road near the Sharnbrook turn. He asked Taylor what he had under his coat. Taylor replied “a shirt”. He took it from him and asked whose it was. Taylor said it was his and he had had it about a week. He arrested both Taylor and Maher, took them to Sharnbrook Police Station and charged them both with stealing the shirt. Maher said “Both of us? I did not take it, he took it”. Taylor said “I did take it but it was to keep Maher and me”. Pleas of defendents Frederick Taylor – “I stole the shirt”. Cornelius Maher – “I did not steal the shirt but I was with him before and after”.
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