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RefNoKHCP/1/8/3
AltRefNoHCP/1/8/3
TitleStatement by George Bimson of Pipers Lane St. Neots, labourer, accusing William Apethorpe (aged 16) Offord D'Arcy, John Shepperson (20) Great Paxton, John Ward (17) Great Paxton, all labourers, of stealing a watch; by Anne, Bimson's wife, describing how she saw the watch on the mantelpiece at breakfast about 9.0 on Jan. 7th, how after her husband's departure for work at 9.30 the three prisoners came into the house to beg (a plough Monday making) for a halfpenny and after they had gone, she missed the watch; by the accused - who had not been able to sell the watch in Huntingdon; by John Upchurch, Bimson's neighbour, stating that on Plow Monday the accused had called at his house asking for money - had then gone to Bimson's house. He and Bimson had been to Great Paxton, Offord, Buckden, Offord, Great Paxton, looking for the accused.
Date1882
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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