QSR1835/3/5/16-17

Depositions - Charlotte Bland and Esther Bland charged with stealing a pair of high shoes from James Carr

29 April 1835

From: 1835 To: 1835

James Carr of Potton, shoemaker – his house is on one side of the street and his shop on the other. The windows look towards each other. On Monday 13 April he left his house a little before 8pm and the pair of high shoes now produced was hanging in the window of the house. He came back a little after 8 and saw the two young women come out of his house. One of them (Esther Bland) went across to the shop and the other (Charlotte Bland) came up the street. About 9pm he missed the shoes. He next saw them on Thursday 16th when he went to the house of one Chandler in Potton and saw Charlotte Bland. He asked her to let him look at her shoes which she did. He said they were his and he could swear to them. She said she bought them at Biggleswade. He desired her to take them off. While she was doing so her sister Esther came in and also said that Charlotte had bought them at Biggleswade. He took them away with him. He knows them by their being his own workmanship. Jane Carr, wife of James Carr – she saw the shoes safe in the front window of their house about 7.45pm. There was nobody who came in after that before the two girls. About an hour and a half after they were gone her husband missed the shoes. They were in the house about 10 minutes. She was in the back part of the house with her children. They went out through the front room where the shoes were by themselves.

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Bland, Charlotte,
Bland, Esther,
Carr, James,
Carr, Jane

POTTON, stealing, shoes, shoemaker