QSR1841/1/5/43

Depositions and examination - Robert Hare of Northill, charged with stealing two pairs of overalls

9 December 1840

From: 1840 To: 1841

George Stokes of Northill, bricklayer - on Sunday 13 October he left a pair of overalls in Mr Harveys cowhouse in Ickwell in the parish of Northill. The next Sunday he missed them. About a month later he saw Robert Hare wearing them, and several times since he was working on Mr Harveys premises. Last Sunday fortnight he had left another pair of overalls in the same cowhouse and missed them on the previous Wednesday. He suspected Hare had stolen them. He went and asked Hare where he had bought the overalls he had got on - he said he had had them a long time. Samuel Bates the coachman stepped up and and examined them, and said they were the ones he [Bates] had given to him. The next Saturday he went to Hare again and he said he had the last pair that were lost but not the first. When Bates charged him with stealing them he putlled them off and left them in the limehouses. The pair now produced are those he first lost. They have since been altered into trousers. Samuel Bates of Northill, labourer - the trousers now produced were one his and he gave them to George Stokes 2 years ago. They were then overalls but have since been altered into trousers. Robert Hare - has nothing to say. He had the last pair of overalls that Stokes lost but not the first.

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Hare, Robert,
Stokes, George,
Bates, Samuel,
Harvey

NORTHILL, Ickwell, stealing, clothing, bricklayer