QSR1851/2/5/14/a

Depositions of Samuel Barber, yeoman of Tilbrook, Henson Hitchcock, blacksmith of Swineshead, and William Walker, police constable, of Swineshead. In the case of William Sibly accused of stealing an iron chain

4 April 1851

From: 1851 To: 1851

Samuel Barber: on 11 February, he missed a chain from a [?] threshing machine. This was standing in the yard of Mr Bates of Tillbrook. He did not see the chain again until 8 March when he saw it within the shop of Henson Hitchcock of Swineshead. Henson Hitchcock: was a blacksmith living in Swineshead, in Huntingdon. On 20 February he bought the chain from William Silby for 2 pence halfpenny. William Walker: on 31 March, following information he obtained the chain from Henson Hitchcock and apprehended the prisoner.

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Silby, William,
Barber, Samuel,
Hitchcock, Henson,
Walker, William,
Bates

Tillbrook, SWINESHEAD, stealing, chain, blacksmith