QSR1842/1/5/12

Depositions and examination - Thomas Tinsley

4 November 1841

From: 1841 To: 1842

John Ball of Felmersham, corn factor - in 1839 he had a new shaft put into his pitching fork. He sent it with others in a cart to Pertenhall as he had bought some hay there. Thomas Tinsley of Risely, who was in the habit of carting goods for him, was to draw it home. He missed the pitchfork at the time and had not seen it since until the previous Friday when he saw it on Thomas Tinsley's premises. He recognised it through his initials marked on the hoop. He also bought a cart and harness from Thomas Tinsley in lieu of a debt Tinsley owed him. He sent the harness on his horses to bring some grain he was thrashing from Thomas Tinslsy's premises, which he had bought at a sale there on Friday 28 October. When the carts returned he missed the harness reins and was informed Thomas Tinsley had taken them. He sent a servant after them, and found the reins on Tinsley's premises. Robert Halliday, one of the Bedfordshire Rural Police stationed at Milton Ernest - he went to see John Ball who he had heard wanted to see him. Ball said he had strong suspicion that Thomas Tinsley had some of his property. Ball had got a warrant and gave it to him. He went to Thomas Tinsley's house and found a pitchfork and the reins under a table in a back room. Thomas Tinsley - the pitchfork was his property, which he bought from Mr Stanton at Thurleigh 5 years ago. The reins he also considered his property. William Clayton - he was the first person who used the fork 5 years ago. He knows it by a particular knot in the handle.

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Tinsley, Thomas,
Ball, John,
Halliday, Robert,
Clayton, William,
Stanton

RISELEY, FELMERSHAM, MILTON ERNEST, THURLEIGH, stealing, agricultural implements, harness, corn factor, carts