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Depositions of George Leggate, gardener, and Edmund Field, labourer, of Henlow in the case of George Leggate, the younger, accused of stealing a live fowl

15 August 1849

From: 1849 To: 1849

Edmund Field: was working for James Long and was walking home with George Leggate, after weeding beans, when George Leggate caught one of Long's fowl. He killed it and wrapped up in a handkerchief and walk with it under his arm. George Leggate, the gardener: asked George Leggate, the boy, what he had under his arm and took it from him. It was a fowl. He asked him where he had got it, and he said he had found it. He told him to take it back to Mr Long's housekeeper. Next day he went to the kitchen and saw it lying there. Mrs Miller, the housekeeper was also there.

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Leggate, George,
Miller, Sarah,
Field, Edmund,
Long, James

HENLOW, stealing, fowl