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Depositions of Joseph Gibbons the younger, farmer of Tingrith, James Brewer, game keeper of Tingrith, and William Coltman, police constable of Eversholt. In the case of William Whitbread the elder & William Whitbread the younger, accused of stealing half a peck of barley and a sack

22 March 1850

From: 1850 To: 1850

Joseph Gibbons the younger: lived with his father and assisted on the farm. Both Whitbread men had been in his father's employ for years. On 21 March, the men were threshing a barley field. Gibbons had cause to ask James Brewer to keep an eye on the men, whilst he went to Ampthill market. On his return both men were in custody and he was shown a hidden sack containing barley. He believed the barley to be his fathers. James Brewer: was keeping watch on the men. At the end of the day, he watched the elder man act suspiciously with a sack of barley, then go to a barnsted and strap barley in under his smock. He later went with Gibbons to the men's house where more barley was found in a little store upstairs. William Coltman: following from information given to him by Brewer, the asked the elder man, what he had in his possession. The man stated whatever he had it had been given to him by his brother from Toddington that morning. Coltman took from him a bag containing barley, which was shaped around his waist under his smock. At the accused’s house more barley was found.

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Whitbread, William,
Gibbons, Joseph,
Brewer, James,
Coltman, William

TINGRITH, stealing, barley, sack