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RefNoKHCP/1/34/90
AltRefNoHCP/1/34/90
TitleDeposition for Cases Tried in January: Jonathan Woods, 16, labourer, employed by Mr. John Nix, farmer, Somersham, accused by William Clack, horsekeeper, of stealing a bank note (Foster's Bank, bridge) for £5 and 3 crowns from his trousers in a bedroom which they shared at the house of James Ayres, foreman. Woods ran away, changed the £5 note at a second hand clothes shop at Northampton, reached Liverpool, paid £2.10.0 passage money to America and bought for 17/- my bed muffins and pins (sic) But on Boxing Day, the eve of his departure, Clack who had spent four days tracking him down found him among the shipping and took him back to St. Ives and the custody of Police Officer, Benson.
Date1852
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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