- ReferenceQSR1841/3/5/28
- TitleDepositions and examination - Thomas Hemley
- Date free text26 May 1841
- Production dateFrom: 1841 To: 1841
- Scope and ContentWilliam Stevens, son of Thomas Stevens of Billington, farmer who keeps fowls - on Monday evening he saw a cock and 7 pullets roosting in his father's barn. One Tuesday morning they were gone except the cock. The 7 pullets now produced are his father's. Joseph Fleet of Billington, labourer - on Monday evening he was going up Billington Street and heard a man coming after him. He stopped. The man passed by going towards the house of George King. He lodged at William Stevens's and on Tuesday morning told him that a man had passed him with some fowls the night before. He went to the barn with Stevens and found the 7 pullets missing. Stevens sent him for William Fowler, constable of Billington. They all went to the house of George King and from the description of the man who passed him they suspected it was Thomas Hemley, who lodges with George King his father in law. When the constable searched a small lean to behind the house he found the 7 pullets. William Fowler of Billington, constable - Fleet came to him and said that Stevens had lost some fowls. From the description of the man who passed him with some fowls he suspected Thomas Hemley. They went and searched the house of his father in law George King and found the 7 pullets in a small lean to. He took the fowls to Thomas Stevens, who ordered him to take Hemley into custody which he did. Thomas Hemley told him that William Cherry went with him to Stevens's barn and took out the fowls and gave them to him. Hemley said he would tell the truth. The pullets are worth at least 2s each. Thomas Hemley - a little before 12 at night William Cherry came and called him. They went to Master Stevens' barn. Cherry went in and took the fowls and gave them to him. He took them to King's house.
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