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Deposittion of Edward James Cooper In the case of Arthur Lewis charged with breaking & entering the dwelling house of Annie Flicknell on 31st October 1910 & feloniously stealing a clock the goods & chattels of Mary Medhurst

9th November 1910

From: 1910 To: 1911

Edward James Cooper says; I am a mechanical engineer and reside at 14 High Town Road Luton where I also carry on a business for the sale of second hand clothes. On Monday 31st October last I was in the private bar of the Railway Inn at the corner of High Town Road at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner was in the public bar and I heard and saw him endeavouring to sell a clock to the landlady. She told him she never bought over the counter but possiblly the gentleman in the next bar (meaning me) might buy it. I then said I would like to look at it and the landlady handed it to me. The clock produced without the pedistal is the one handed to me. I noticed at the time it had no pedistal. The prisoner was asking 3 shillings for the clock. I mentioned to the landlady that part of the clock was missing and said it might have come of a statue, prisoner then said, if you think it was stolen you had better send for the constable. He also said he had the Bailiffs in the house, a wife & 3 children & was in distress. I gave him 18 pence for the clock and afterwards sold it for 2 shillings. The prisoners told me he was a gardener, that he lived at 14 York Street and would be glad ti do anything for me if I wanted a man. I had seen him before in a Public House with a garden fork. I afterwards picked the prisoner out from a number of the men at the Police Station, that wason 2nd September 1910. signed Edward James Cooper

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Cooper, Edward James,
Lewis, Arthur,
Medhurst, Mary

LUTON, Public House, Luton Railway Inn, clocks, bailiff