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Depositions and examination - Daniel Peacock charged with stealing potatoes

30 December 1840

From: 1840 To: 1841

John Gibbons of Battlesden, farmer - Daniel Peacock has been a day labourer in his employment for several years. The previous evening he saw Peacock come out of a building on his farm where he keeps his potatoes. Peacock went in to put a tub in. As Peacock came past a hay rick he saw him drop something. He asked what Peacock had got and he said "only a potato or two to take home to roast". He felt Peacock's pockets and took out several potatoes and picked up 3 or 4 more he had thrown down - about half a peck altogether. Peacock begged his forgiveness. He said he had taken them from his potato house. Daniel Peacock - "I cannot say but what I am guilty of those potatoes. I had nothing to eat since the morning. It's the first time I ever took anything from my master."

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Gibbons, John,
Peacock, Daniel

BATTLESDEN, stealing, potatoes