QSR1842/3/5/34-35/b

Depositions and examinations - Thomas Hart and Jacob Hart

23 May 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

John Fensom of Colmworth, labourer - at the end of April as he was going to his work he met with Isaac Chambers of Colmworth who said "you have got a bad foot iron with you". He agreed. Chambers offered to sell him a good one and said he would bring it the next day. He bought it from Chambers for 8d. On Thursday 12th May he saw Thomas Stock who told him he had lost a foot iron in the winter. He told Stock he had bought one and from the description of it Stock came to his house and identified it as his iron. Yesterday Stock came to his house with Mr Dale the policeman and he gave it to the policeman. Isaac Chambers of Colmworth, labourer - he bought the foot iron from Thomas Hart at the end of January. Thomas Hart came to him in the field where he was at work and said "you have got a bad foot iron". Hart said he had a good one to sell. Hart brought it the next morning and he paid 6d for it. He believes he asked Hart if it was one of his father's and he said it was. About a month ago he met with John Fensom and sold the foot iron to him for 8d. Charles Dale, police officer of the county of Bedford - on the previous Saturday he was on duty at Colmworth when Thomas Stock said he had lost a foot iron from the yard of Mr John King of Colmworth and it was in the possession of John Fensom. From something Stock told him he went to Thomas Hart and Jacob Hart yesterday morning and apprehended them. He asked Jacob Hart if he knew anything about the foot iron. Hart said his brother Thomas Hart had sold it to Isaac Chambers. Jacob Hart confessed he had taken the foot iron out of the yard of Mr John King. Yesterday he went with Thomas Stock to John Fensom's house and was given the foot iron now produced. Jacob Hart and Thomas Hart - have nothing to say.

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Hart, Thomas,
Hart, Jacob,
Stock, Thomas,
Fensom, John,
King, John,
Dale, Charles,
Chambers, Isaac

COLMWORTH, stealing