QSR1833/4/5/14

Jonathan Crouch of Arlesey. William Millard of Flitton. John Watts, constable of Henlow. Mary Millard, wife of William Millard. Sarah Millard, wife of Samuel Millard. Thomas Webb, labourer of Flitton. Sarah Bone [deposition crossed through] not bound to appear. In the case of Henry Crouch accused of stealing 2 calico and 2 linen shirts.

26 September 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

Jonathan Crouch: a shoemaker and brother of the prisoner who lodged at his house. His house had 2 bedrooms. The first room was a thoroughfare to the second. His brother slept in a bed in the first room. Sarah Bone [deposition crossed out] she was a poor widow woman and lived in a house at Wardhedges in the parish of Flitton. She was normally employed to wash for the prosecutor William Millard. On 17 September she was employed by Millard as a washerwoman. The shirt produced by the Henlow constable she believed to be the shirt of William Millard by the patches on it. The shirt with thread sewed or darkened up the bosom she had frequently washed and knew it to be the shirt of Samuel Millard, son of the prosecutor. William Millard: he was a foreman residing at Wardhedges. On 18 September he lost 5 shirts which were taken form a hedge in his paddock about 40 yards from his back door. He believed the shirt produced by the Henlow constable to be his. John Watts: on 25 September he was called by the constable to assist him in searching the house of Jonathan Crouch in Arlesey, under warrant, to discover some shirts which had been stolen from the dwelling house of Richard Paine in Shillington. Upon searching one of the bedrooms he found a dirty shirt and under the same bed he found, tied in 2 rags, 2 clean shirts. He took another shirt from the person of the prisoner in the presence of the magistrate Mr Hull. Mary Millard: wife of William the prosecutor. She knew the shirt produced by the Henlow constable to be her husbands. The other 3 shirts had been worn by her son Samuel and were the property of her husband who supplied her son’s clothes. Sarah Millard: wife of Samuel Millard, son of the prosecutor and she lived in the same house with her husbands father and mother. On 17 September they had a wash in which she was assisted by Sarah Bone. 3 shirts shown to her by the Henlow constable she knew to have been worn by her husband, who was supplied with clothes by his father. The fourth shirt with brown thread on the collar was that of her father in law. On the morning of 18 September she hung the shirts to dry in the paddock upon the hedge, about 40 yards from the house. She did this about 9am and missed them around 3pm. She found 5 shirts to be missing. Thomas Webb: he was a labourer living in Flitton. On 18 September about 8am he met the prisoner going in the direction of Greenfield. He met the prisoner again about 12.30pm returning from Greenfield, about half a mile from the house of the prosecutor. Statement of the accused: nothing.

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Crouch, Henry,
Crouch, Jonathan,
Millard, William,
Watts, John,
Millard, Mary,
Millard, Sarah,
Millard, Samuel,
Webb, Thomas,
Bone, Sarah,
Paine, Richard

ARLESEY, FLITTON, HENLOW, SHEFFORD, Wardhedges, stealing, shirts, washerwoman