QSR1920/1/5/1b(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)(vi)

Deposition of Nellie Norman & Police Constable Harold Wilshire case against Arthur Wallace Canderton

13th October 1920

From: 1920 To: 1921

QSR1921/1/5/1b(i)(ii) Division of Luton County of Bedford to wit. The Examination of Nellie Norman of 5 Norton Road, Limbury and of Howard Wilshire, Police Constable of Limbury taken on Oath this 18th day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and twenty at Luton in the County of Bedford, before the undersigned, One of her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said Division in the presence and hearing of Arthur Wallace Canderton who was charged this day before the Court, for that he the said Arthur Wallace Canderton on the 13th day of October One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty at Limbury unlawfully and feloniously did steal take and carry away the sum of fourpence in coins of the money of Arthur Prudden. And this Deponent, Nellie Norman on her Oath saith as follows: I am a Spinster and live at No. 5 Norton Road Limbury. I am housekeeper to Mr. Arthur Prudden of the same address. I remember last Wednesday October13th at about 7.30am. I put a milk jug with four pennies and two farthings inside it outside in the porch of No.5 Norton Road. At 8.30am I saw the milk girl who made a statement to me and showed me two farthings on the garden under the window of the front room. The jug was also on the garden. I did not see the four pennies. I informed Mr. Prudden. The pennies where the property of Mr. Prudden and were to pay for a pint of milk (signed) Nellie Norman Taken before me at Luton in the County of Bedford this 18th day of October 1920 (signed) John J Wright Justice of the Peace for the County of Bedford QSR1921/1/5/1b(iii)(iv)(v) And this Deponent Harold Wilshire on his Oath saith as follows: - I am a Police Constable in the Bedfordshire Constabulary stationed at Limbury. On Wednesday October 13th at about 9.30 a.m. I received information from Mr. Arthur Prudden of No. 5 Norton Road, Limbury that 4 pennies and two farthings were missing from a milk jug which was standing on the doorstep of his house. I went to the house and on the garden under the from room window I saw a newly made footprint, 2 farthings lying beside it. I obtained the description of a youth who was seen in the garden at 8 o’clock that morning . I made enquiries and at 10.30a.m. I visited the Alliance Iron Foundry Icknield Road where I saw the prisoner at work. I told him I was a Police Constable and that he answered the description of a youth seen in the garden of No. 5 Norton Road about 8a.m. that morning where some money had been stolen. I cautioned him and he replied “ I came round Icknield Road way at 10minutes to eight this morning. I did not come Norton Road way. I can prove I came Icknield Road Way as I saw my brother there” I asked him to come to the Marsh Road Police house whilst I make further enquiries, he subsequently cried and said “I gave Ginger two pence” at the same time he took two pennies from his overall pocket and handed them to me. I took him to the Police Station cautioned him and charged him with stealing four pence in coins the property of Arthur Prudden 5 Norton Road Limbury on 13th October 1920. He made no reply. Previously I took prisoner back to the foundry and in his presence a boy called Ginger handed me two pennies which he stated prisoner had given him that morning. (signed) Harold Wilshire Taken before me at Luton in the County of Bedford this 18th day of October 1920. (signed) John Wright Justice of the Peace for the county of Bedford QSR1921/1/5/1b(vi) Division of Luton, County of Bedford to wit. Arthur Wallace Canderton stands charged before the undersigned, one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the Division of Luton, in the county aforesaid, this 18th day of October in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty for that he, the said Arthur Wallace Canderton on the 13th day of October 1920, at the Division of Luton, unlawfully and feloniously did steal take and carry away the sum of fourpence in coins of the moneys of Arthur Prudden And the said Charge being read to the said Arthur Wallace Canderton and the Witnesses for the Prosecution being severally examined in his presence, the said Arthur Wallace Canderton is now addressed by me as follows: “Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so; but whatever you say will be taken down in Writing, and may be given in Evidence against you upon your Trial. And you are clearly to understand that you have nothing to hope from any promise of Favour, and nothing to fear from any Threat, which may have been holden out to you to induce you to make any admission or confession of your guilt, but whatever you shall now say may be given in evidence against you upon your Trial, notwithstanding such Promise or threat”: Whereupon the Defendant saith as follows: - I do not wish to say anything (signed) Arthur W Canderton Rear of Document: Taken before me at the Court House, Luton in the Borough aforesaid on the day and year first above mentioned John Wright And immediately after obeying the direction of the 18th Section of the Act Eleventh and Twelfth Victoria, Chapter Forty-Two, I, the said Justice of the Peace, did demand and require of the said Arthur Wallace Canderton whether he desired to call any Witness; and thereupon answer to such demand the said Arthur Wallace Canderton [neither] called or desired to call [any person or persons] as Witnesses. (signed John Wright

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Norman, Nellie,
Wilshire, Harold,
Wright, John,
Prudden, Arthur,
Canderton, Arthur Wallace

LIMBURY Norton Road, LUTON, Luton Icknield Road, breaking & entering, stealing, apples, money