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Depositions of Roget Attwood, draper's assistant at Eaton Socon. Anna Cooper, of Staploe. William Bedlow, sergeant of police of Eaton Socon. In the case of Maria Perkins, accused of obtaining a print dress by false pretences.

17 August 1867

From: 1867 To: 1867

Roger Attwood: he was a grocer and draper. On 31 July the prisoner came to his employer’s Mr John Caule and asked if Mr Caule would let her mother have a print dress. He asked her name and she replied “Mrs Cooper of Staploe”. The prisoner said her mother would pay for it at a shilling a week as she was going out to service on the following Saturday. He let her have the dress supposing that Mrs Cooper had sent her. Mrs Cooper was a customer. Anna Cooper: she lived at Staploe, in the parish of Eaton Socon. She was no relation to the prisoner and had sent her for any goods. She did know the prisoner. Sergeant William Bedlow: he apprehended the prisoner at Eaton Socon and told her the charge. The prisoner replied “I wanted a dress very bad and as I knew Mrs Cooper dealt at Mr Allen’s shop I would go there and have a dress in her name”. The prisoner said the dress was at her aunts in Dunloe.

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Perkins, Maria,
Attwood, Roger,
Cooper, Anna,
Bedlow, William,
Caule, John

EATON SOCON, STAPLOE, false pretences, dress, draper's assistant