Reference
QSR1822/324-325
Title
Examinations and depositions. Information of King Taylor of Kempston, husbandman, Samuel Mennard of Kempston and Stephen Prior of Bedford, constable. Examination of John Stone.
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1822
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From: 1822 To: 1822
Scope and Content
Information of King Taylor. He hung his watch up in the kitchen while he went out. Came back in just over an hour and it was missing. On being given certain information he came to Bedford and Stephen Prior of Bedford, constable, arrested John Stone and Henry Clark in Cauldwell Street. The watch in Stephen Prior's possession is Taylor's.Information of Samuel Mennard of Kempston. John Stone and Henry Clark asked him for a halfpenny 'to help get them a lodging' but he had no money. He later saw Stone go into and return from Mr Taylor's yard and then proceed towards Bedford. Hearing Mr Taylor had lost his watch, he informed him of what he had seen amd accompanied him to Bedford the following day. ' .... in the square where the fair is held, I pointed out the prisoners to Mr Taylor and to the constable - I saw John Stone take a silver watch out of his own breeches pocket and deliver it up to the constable as soon as he had been apprehended and taken into a public house.Information of Stephen Prior of Bedford, constable. Similar to the foregoing; searched the prisioners in the Windmill public house. The two at first denied knowing each other until he took a pack of cards from the pocket of John Stone, when Clark said 'they are mine.'Examination of John Stone: 'I am a poor stocking weaver in distress - I was travelling into Leicestershire - after having been in London to offer myself for a soldier, but was not tall enough. My parents are in distress, my father out of employment; I have 8 brothers and sisters. I met Henry Clark a couple of days ago, I know no ill of him.'
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