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RefNoKHCP/1/14/10
AltRefNoHCP/1/14/10
TitleBody-Stealing: John Spriggs, New Town, Peterborough, victualler, deposed to going, on information received from Weston, to the hovel, and to the removal of the corpse to his brewhouse. A certain styles locked the door and took the key. Next morning Spriggs drew the stafle of the brewhouse and admitted Billings and others. Billings thought it was his wife but altered a good deal. He went away, returning in two hours with a coffin, saying his wife had been stolen.
DateDecember 1830
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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