QSR1835/4/5/35

The depositions of Jemima Buckingham, single woman of Luton; Mary Young, servant; Richard Vyse of Luton; Joseph Walker and Richard Pimlett In the case against William Kingham accused of embezzlement

14 September 1835

From: 1835 To: 1835

Jemima Buckingham said: I am servant to Mr Richard Vyse – I have been 18 years in his service – I never received ten pounds from the hands of William Kingham – Mr John Jones asked me if William Kingham had given me any money – about last Wednesday Kingham came and said I am come to see about this money – well I said who did you give the money to – he said I thought I had given it to you – I said you never did – I never saw you. Mary Young said: I am servant to Mr Vyse – William Kingham never gave me ten pounds I saw him last Wednesday – I was there and heard what past between him and Jemima Buckingham – He said Walker had given it to him but he was not sure whether he had given it to us. I told him he had never given it to him. Richard Vyse said: Last Wednesday fortnight I was at Dunstable and borrowed ten pounds of Mr John Jones – When I got home I advised Joseph Walker to send it to Mr Jones – Last Wednesday I went to Dunstable and Mr Jones mentioned that he had not received the ten pounds. I said I was much surprised and I paid it him thinking it might have been forgotten – When I returned home I asked Walker how it was that he had not sent it – he told me that he had given it to William Kingham my servant on the Thursday morning after I had borrowed the money. When I questioned Kingham he told me that he perfectly remembered Walker giving him the money and that he laid it on the cow bin and that he had no recollection of it afterwards. Joseph Walker said: A fortnight last Wednesday Mr Vyse told me to send Mr Jones ten pounds which he had borrowed of him at Dunstable. I gave ten pounds to William Kingham on the following Thursday morning about a quarter past six o’clock just before I started for [?] market – he was against the stable door he received it in his hand and I told him to take it to Mr Jones – Mr Vyse asked me last Wednesday the reason why I had not sent it – I went out to Kingham and asked him who he gave it to – he told me to the servant girl – I went up to Mr Jones and Mr Jones asked both the servants and they denied having received it – When I came back I told Kingham that they denied it and he said he was pretty sure he had given it to one of them but he could not say which – I don’t recollect whether it was a ten pound note or two five pound notes. Richard Pimlett said: On Wednesday last Mr Vyse told me Kingham had lost a ten pound note – I went into the stable sometime after and said to him this is a bad job – how came you to lose this money – his reply was I know nothing about it – I said have you searched the stable and searched your clothes – he said he had – he said he had no recollection of anything about it except setting the note on the bin – he said I recollect having the money but have no recollection of what has become of it – On Saturday night I was going to pay him but before I did so I asked him how he meant to pay this ten pound note – he said I pay it – I never had it and it is likely to be Walkers fault as well as mine.

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Kingham, William,
Buckingham, Jemima,
Young, Mary,
Vyse, Richard,
Walker, Joseph,
Pimlett, Richard

LUTON, servant, embezzlement