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Depositions of Christopher Martin Wilson, farmer of Eaton Socon, Charles Silby, police constable, and Joseph Hall, farmer of St Neots. In the case of John Bailey accused of stealing a wooden bottle

15 May 1851

From: 1851 To: 1851

Christopher Martin Wilson: a farmer of Eaton Socon. On 28 April he put a wooden bottle in a hedge in a field called 'The Fox Holes' at Cross Hull. It was within 20 yards of the river. About 2 hours later he went to get the bottle and found it gone. There was no footpath nearby. The bottle presented to him by Constable Silby was his bottle. Around 7 May the prisoner came to him and asked if he had lost a wooden bottle. Wilson said he had and the prisoner offered to bring it to hi for four pence. He told the prisoner he would give him four pence if it was retuned but he did not see the prisoner again. Joseph Hull: about a fortnight previously he had been walking in St Neots when he met the prisoner who asked him if he wanted to buy a bottle. After some conversation he gave the prisoners four pence for it. The prisoner said he had found it. Charles Silby: from information received he went to the Bushel and Strike beer house in St Neots. He received the bottle from the wife of the owner of the house, who was also the mother of Joseph Hull.

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Bailey, John,
Wilson, Christopher Martin,
Hall, Joseph

EATON SOCON, St.Neots Bushel & Strike, St Neots, stealing, bottles