Martin Seipp

  General Notes:

1869 At time of marriage lived with Mary Ann at 7 Royston Street, Bethnal Green.
1871 census shoemaker living at 34 Plumbers Row, Mile End. Elizabeth's birth certificate says 33 Plummers Row.
1881 census slipper maker living at 23 Settles Street, London. Fiche 1341103 Page 8 widower with his 4 children
1891 census slipper maker living at 97 Ernest Street, Stepney but says he was born in Berlin.
1901 census slipper maker living at 71 Ernest Street, Stepney.
1911 census slipper maker living at 44 Cadiz Street, Stepney.

370. EDWARD BUCKLEY (43), and WILLIAM HUDSON (30) , Robbery on Martin Sepp, and stealing from his person 17s. 6d., his money.

MR. MACKAY Prosecuted.

MARTIN SEPP . I am a slipper maker, of 71, Ernest Street, Stepney\emdash
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on March 29th, about eleven p.m., I was in a public-house in Stepney, and saw the prisoners there\emdash I had seen them before\emdash I gave them several drinks, and then said "I am going home"\emdash I was a little on, and as I went out I was followed by two men\emdash Buckley held me by my arms from behind, and put one hand on my mouth\emdash they took 17s. 6d., which was all I had, and left me without a penny\emdash they ran up the first turning\emdash I could not catch them, and went back to the beer-shop and gave information\emdash I saw Buckley next day outside the Bull and Mouth, and gave him into custody\emdash he said, "I only did it for your goodness"\emdash I saw Hudson next morning at the Court.

Cross-examined by Buckley. The governor did not refuse to serve me; he refused to serve you and two others, because he thought you came in for a row\emdash you took all the money I had, and 8s. was my wife's, and she and I have been out of work ever since\emdash I came out with £2; I had spent the rest.

Cross-examined by Hudson. When I met you I did not say I had been fighting with some Germans\emdash I did not take you to a house where I had been rowing\emdash I did not go to the Mulberry Tree that night\emdash I could not have been so very drunk, for I knew you.

WILLIAM GILL (Detective N). I took Hudson on March 31st in bed at a common lodging-house\emdash I said I was going to take him in custody for being concerned with Buckley in stealing 17s. 6d.\emdash he said, "I was with him, but I know nothing about it"\emdash at the station he said he knew nothing about the robbery.

SIDNEY KENDAL (Policeman H). On March 31st I took Buckley\emdash I was with Sepp, who said, "That is the one who held my arms at the back while the other took the money"\emdash Buckley said, "I was with him last night, and tried to save him; he knows who done it"\emdash when charged he said, "The prosecutor knows the other man."

The prisoner's statement before the Magistrate: "They refused to serve him. He had a row with some Germans. He must know I could not hold him in the way he said."

Hudson's defence. If I had committed this robbery I should not have gone home to bed, because I should be sure to be arrested. I went one way, and this man went another. We both live in one lodging-house, but I went a different way because I had to see a gentleman. I know nothing of the robbery.

NOT GUILTY .

Martin married Mary Ann Newstead, daughter of William Newman and Mary Ann Sarah Dawson, on 23 Aug 1869 in St. Jude, Bethnal Green. (Mary Ann Newstead was born in 1850 in Stepney, London, England and died in 1880 in Mile End, Whitechapel, London, England.)

Martin next married Karolina Wehmeir in 1881 in Whitechapel, London, England. (Karolina Wehmeir was born in 1864 in Stepney, London, England and died before 1901.)