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Depositions and examination - James Warren, charged with stealing hurdles from Joseph Francis Buckworth

28 December 1839

From: 1839 To: 1840

Caroline Granby of Wootton, spinster - last Tuesday December 24 at about 6am she heard someone in the yard of the house where she lives. The yard belongs to 3 cottages and James Warren lodges in one of them. She got out of bed to look and saw James Warren putting four hurdles into the hovel barn belonging to the house where he lodges. She then saw him bring some stakes and a faggot into the same barn. When she got up in the morning she went to look in the garden where she saw him bring the hurdles from and saw two long rails and a pile belonging to a quick fence lying there. She supposed the hurdles to be Colonel Buckworth's and informed Mr Clarke his bailiff what she had seen . Edward Clarke of Wootton, bailiff of Joseph Francis Buckworth - between 7 and 8am on Tuesday morning 24th in consequence of what Caroline Granby hold him he went into a barn belonging to the house where James Warren lodges. He saw there 4 hurdles and a faggot which was part broken up. He went into the house and accused Warren of stealing the hurdles from Colonel Buckworth's premises. Warren denied it. As he was going hom Warren followed him and said he hoped he would not prosecute him as he is an old man and would do so no more. He also said only 2 of the hurdles were Colonel Buckworth's. Warren left. He then saw Warren bringing the hurdles out of the churchyard which is at the back of his barn. Warren could not have got the hurdles away unless he had brought them through his house or through the churchyard. He saw Warren carry the hurdles into the yard belonging to Colonel Buckworth at Wootton where he lives. He had missed some hurdles and the stack on which they had been piled appeared to have been pulled about, but he could not tell how many were missing. He examined two inclosure rails and a pile which he saw in the churchyard near the barn - they are of the same kind as Colonel Buckworth's. James Warren - declines to say anything.

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Warren, James,
Granby, Caroline,
Clarke, Edward,
Buckworth, Joseph Francis

WOOTTON, stealing, fencing