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Depositions and examination - William Slater

2 October 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

William Bettle, innkeeper at Marston - as he was going upstairs to bed the previous night he saw William Slater standing near his house talking to two other men. Slater left them and went straight to a cart belonging to Edward Parsons who is a dealer in earthenware. The cart was full of pots and pans. Slater took one pot from the cart, carried it across the road and set it at the end of a saw pit about 20 or 30 yards away. Slater then came back and went into Faulkner's house a few yards away. Slater shut the door, stopped for about a minute, came out again, went to the saw pit and took the pot away with him. He then went and told Mr Parsons.He went to his own house to go to bed and met Slater without the pot. Slater asked what he had been saying and denied stealing a pot. He said Slater had and that he could find it in 10 minutes. He searched for the pot and found it in a ditch. Edward Parsons - he believes the pot produced to be his property. William Slater - "I hope to be as mercifully dealt with as possible as I never did such a thing before"

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Slater, William,
Parsons, Edward,
Bettle, William,
Faulkner

MARSTON MORETAINE, stealing, pottery, innkeeper