Reference
QSR1840/1/5/5/a
Title
Deposition of Samuel Dilley of Broom in Southill, market gardener - John Bone charged with stealing onion seed
Date free text
25 October 1839, resworn 29 October 1839
Production date
From: 1839 To: 1840
Scope and Content
Last week he sifted some onion seed to put it into a sack - it weighed 89lbs. On Monday 21 October he went to London leaving his housekeeper at home. On the Thursday John Bone who works for him told his housekeeper the seed would be spoiled if it was not brought out of the house and took it into the stable. He had been sifting the heads of the onion seed again and had put a quantity of the seed and chaff which he got from the heads into the sack with the other seed. He then took the sack back into the house. When he returned home his housekeeper told him Bone had had the sack of seed out of the house, and he suspected he had taken some. He weighed it again and found it 2lbs lighter, although there was a great quantity of chaff and rubbish amongst it. He thinks it was short about 25lbs of seed. He suspects Bone took it out and it is concealed either at his lodgings at Elizabeth Hawkins, widow at Broom or at the house of Thomas Albone with whose daughter he keeps company. Albone's family "all bear a bad character". He wants a warrant to search the two houses.
Level of description
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