Transcripts: Report on item 'New Police Evidence' in the Weekly Dispatch, 11th Jan. 1834 [sic]
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H Division
P.C. 58 John Burnham is the man referred to in the paragraphs 20th Col[umn] of Weekly Dispatch Sunday last who informed the common Sergeant in the New Court Old Bailey on Tuesday 6th last that his prisoner was not in the same drefs as when apprehended.
Burnham states that he twice applied to Mr Inspector Priece of F Division then on duty in Court for directions how to act respecting the prisoner having changed his clothes. That Mr Priece told him if there was any doubt of his being identified he had better mention the circumstance to the Judge which he did in consequence of the Prosecutor giving his evidence in so loo[he] a manner and the judge having remarked that he was intoxicated.
Burnham positively denies having made any remark about one of the Force being compelled to put on his uniform for the purpose of being identified when charged with felony as stated in the paragraph above.
John Burnham
14/1/35 Wm Norman for T. Hunter
Supt
PC giving directions to a mono-cyclist, Hammersmith, c.1935.