Reference
QSR1840/1/5/8/b
Title
Depositions of John Mannings of Barton in the Clay, labourer - Samuel Wootley of Barton, charged with stealing a watch
Date free text
21 September and 1 November 1839
Production date
From: 1839 To: 1840
Scope and Content
He is employed by Mr Fowler of Barton Hill Farm. On Wednesday 11 Septeember having finished the harvest month he and severl more of his master's men were largess drinking at Barton. They drank a good deal of beer. He and two other men left the Crown Public House between 8 and 9pm. He had a silver watch and a steel chain and key and a gilt seal in his watch fob, and 4 or 5 shillings in his pocket. Seeing he was "a little the worse for liquor" his companion led him to a hovel belonging to the Coach and Horsed in Barton and told him to lie down and have a sleep. They left him and returned a little later and woke him. He then found his watch was gone and his breeches pockets were turned inside out and all his money was gone except a sixpence he found in his purse lying on the ground beside him. His companions made him get up and took him home. When he left the Crown he saw Samuel Wootley and James Gutteridge standing together in the road about 4 yards away. When he went to lie down in the hovel they were both together in the Coach and Horses yard.
Further information, sworn on 1 November 1839 - besides his money and watch he lost a knife and few half pence out of the other pocket. The watch chain, seal and key now produced are those taken.
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