QSR1852/3/5/19/a

Depositions of Thomas Milligan farmer and farming bailiff of Dean, William Walker, police constable of Dean, and Charles Barker, police constable of Harrold. In the case of John Andrews Wright accused of stealing wheat and barley mixture, beans and 2 sacks.

8 June 1852

From: 1852 To: 1852

Thomas Milligan: farm bailiff to Mr William Ac[?]d of Dean. He employed John Andrews Wright as a labourer on the farm. From information received he went to Wright's cottage on 29 May and enquired how Wright had come by some beans which he had seen in the pig sty. Milligan suspected them stolen and directed Constable Walker to take Wright into custody. He and Walker searched the premises and they found a quantity of beans, barely and wheat all mixed together and in the men’s bed. Milligan had in his granary wheat and barley mixed and ground together. There were also beans in the granary. It was his belief that corn found into the bed was corn taken from the granary. He accused him of taking the corn but Wright said that it had been his wife who had gleaned the beans. He identified the 2 sacks by Constable Walker as his property. William Walker: he searched the house of John Andrews Wright on 209 May and found 2 sacks (marked with the name Milligan), and a bag of grain containing about a peck. Upstairs he searched the bed and quantity of corn, beans, barley and wheat was found. Mr Milligan identified this as his property. Charles Barker: on 30 May he had charge of the prisoner in Harrold. The prisoner wished to speak to him and told him he stole the corn found in his house from his master’s corn bin. He also confessed to stealing some wheat and barley mixed ad some beans. He mixed them all together when he got home with the barley and that he had in his house for harvest. He had thought of stealing the corn when Jonatahn Kinnell said (when drinking his masters beer stolen from the cellar) how easy it was to take corn and so he took some that same night.

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Wright, John Andrews,
Milligan, Thomas,
Walker, William,
Barker, Charles

DEAN, HARROLD, farm bailiff, stealing, wheat, barley, beans, sack