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TitleDeposition: In the case of Anne Green, Eliza Nicholls, Charlotte Brimley, St. Neots, children (Return of Prisoners) charged with stealing handkerchiefs, ribbons, gloves, shoes from shopkeepers in St. Neots - John Hipwell Goodjames, James Shrosbery, John Stead, Ebenezer Geard, Frederick Jenkinson Wood. Elizabeth Brimley, wife of James Brimley, labourer, and mother of Charlotte Brimley was charged with receiving.
DescriptionStatements from the above shopkeepers and from Samuel Fairey, retired draper, Charles Aspenwall (apprentice to Goodjames) Sarah Wright. Evidence was taken from Anne Green and Eliza Nicholls (who were school-fellows and signed their names. Mrs Brimley said that neither her husband nor the Green and Nicholls family knew anything of the matter. The Jurors' presentment includes observations by counsel (F.Gunning, Sargeants Inn) on the case - the relation between the children as thieves and the woman as receiver.
Date1836
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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