QSR1869/4/5/13-14

Depositions of William Bedlow, sergeant of police in Eaton Socon. Jane Parker, widow of Eaton Socon. Robert Read, pawnbroker's assistant at Peterborough. In the case of Edward Roberts and Maria Walker accused of breaking and entering a dwelling house and therein stealing 2 shirts, a dress, a petticoat and a pocket knife.

14 September 1869

From: 1869 To: 1869

Sergeant William Bedlow: he received information of a robbery at the farm of Jane Parker at Beggary. He apprehended the prisoners at Peterborough and Edward Roberts admitted stealing the goods. Jane Parker: she was a widow living at Beggary. She went out of her house on 12 September and locked the door and took the key with her. She left no one in the house. The doors and windows were fastened. She left about 1pm and got back about 8pm. She saw the kitchen window had been broken and the outside door wrenched but not open. She missed a dress, a petticoat, 2 shirts and a knife. The articles produced were those she had missed. She had met the accused going towards her house and said that there was no one there and the female accused had said ‘all right’. Robert Read: he was a pawnbroker’s assistant and lived in Peterborough. She was employed by John Limber Morley. The female prisoner came on the 13 September and brought with her a dress and 2 shirts. She asked for 8 shillings on them. She said they were her own and she had to pledge the dress as she had been to her mother’s funeral at Bedford and not enough money to get home. He advanced her 8 shillings and she left. He did not see the male prisoner. Sergeant William Bedlow: he went in search of the prisoners and found them in bed at the Bulls lodging house at Peterborough. He charged them and told them to get up and dress. They did os and the woman put on an old petticoat. He told her to taker it off as he believed it was part of the stolen property. He searched the man and found the knife. He went out of the room and returned and asked the female prisoner for the duplicate of the articles she had pawned. After a while the prisoner gave him the ticket. He took the prisoners into custody and on the way to the lock up the male prisoner remarked that he had begged at several house and could get nothing to eat or he should not have broken into the house. The following morning he received the dress and 2 shirts from the Robert Read. On 15 September all the articles were identified by Jane Parker.

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Roberts, Edward,
Walker, Maria,
Bedlow, William,
Parker, Jane,
Read, Robert,
Morley, John

EATON SOCON, Beggary, Peterborough, pawnbroker's assistant, breaking & entering, clothing, knife