QSR1832/3/5/10

Depositions of Joseph Oliver, apprentice to Henry Whitbread of Ampthill, a butcher. Charlotte Whitbread, daughter of Henry Whitbread. Robert Savage, watchman of Ampthill. In the case of Henry Dyer. labourer of Ampthill, accused of stealing a quantity of pork.

16 April 1832

From: 1832 To: 1832

Joseph Oliver: on Saturday night, a little before 11pm, he shut the front and shop doors of his master’s house but he did not lock the doors. He also took the candle out of the shop and took it into the kitchen. He then went into the kitchen himself and he had not been 5 minutes when he heard the dog growl. He immediately went into the shop and heard someone pull the front door to the shop door open. He then went into the front door and met Charlotte Whitbread. He asked her if she had tried the door and she said no but she had just met someone. He afterwards went to the shop and missed 2 pieces of pork. He could swear to one piece and he could swear to the piece produced as being that piece. Charlotte Whitbread: about 11pm on Saturday she was returning home from Mr Claridge’s and about 10 yards from her father’s house she saw Henry Dyer come out of the house door with something in his hands. She had frequently seen the prisoner before and she was quite sure he was the same man she had seen come out of her fathers house. He had on a straw hat. She went in and when her father asked her whether she had met anyone she told him she had met Dyer with something in his hand and a cloth over it. Robert Savage: he went to the house of the prisoner who lived next door to his own house. He found the prisoner at home frying some pork and he asked the prisoner if he had taken the pork from Mr Whitbread’s shop. Dyer said he did not know anything about it. He told Dyer that he did and that if he did not bring it out then he would confine him. Dyer said it was in the pantry and he went to fetch it. The pork produced was the same as Dyer had given to him. Statement of the accused: nothing to say.

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Dyer, Henry,
Oliver, Joseph,
Whitbread, Henry,
Whitbread, Charlotte,
Savage, Robert,
Claridge

AMPTHILL, stealing, pork, watchman, butcher