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Depositions – William Bygrave and Jesse Dear charged with stealing two sheepskins from Charles Ell

5 November 1834

From: 1834 To: 1834

Charles Ell of Clifton, butcher – last Saturday night at 10pm there were 2 sheepskins safe in his slaughterhouse at Clifton. The door was not locked. The next morning he saw the door was unpinned and found the skins were gone. Last night he went to Mr Stantons the feltmonger at Shefford and Mr Stanton’s wife showed him the two skins lying in his washing house. He knew them again. The slaughterhouse is in an enclosed yard. Henry Chapman of Shefford, labourer – he is employed by Mr [John] Stanton of Shefford. When he got up on Tuesday morning between 6 and 7am he found the two sheepskins lying in his master’s yard at Shefford, just over the gates. Between 9 and 10am Dear and Bygrave came to Mr Stanton’s and told him that the skins were theirs and they wanted the money for them. Between 5 and 6pm they came again for the money. His master was not at home either time and he did not give them any. He laid the skins in the washing house. His master sent word to Mr Ell that the two men had brought them. He knows them both very well. William Bygrave – “I found the skins in Nunn’s Wood” Jesse Dear – “I was with Bygrave when he found the skins”

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Bygrave, William,
Dear, Jesse,
Ell, Charles,
Chapman, Henry,
Stanton, John

CLIFTON, SHEFFORD, stealing, sheepskin, butcher, feltmonger