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Examinations of George Hill, John Swanell and William Sinfield, charged with stealing 4 fowls from William Frederick Brown of Dunstable

5 December 1842

From: 1842 To: 1843

George Hill - Daniel Taylor told him some stray fowls came into his master's yard and he had been throwing at them, knocked one down and had hidden it in the stable. Taylor said he thought he could get another that night - they could get a fat hen from the fatting coop and put another from the yard into the coop and George would not know. They took it out and killed it and tied it up in his handkerchief. They looked into the hen house but the other black hen was not there and Taylor said he did not know what he should do. Taylor said when he went to feed them in the morning he would tell George the black fowl had got out. William Sinfield - on Friday evening George Hill came to him in the street at Dunstable and said he had got two fowls if they were of any use to him. He said he did not know that they were as he had got no money. Hill said he could take the fowls, sell them for them and give them the money another day. Hill said he had one and Dan Taylor had the other. They went up Vickars's yard and he tied them up in a handkerchief and took them home. John Swanell - Hill came to him that same night and told him that he and Taylor had been to Mr Brown's henhouse and that there were some more left. Hill said that they would go down and have another or two. Hill todl him Daniel Taylor had left the door open on purpose. He and Hill then went down and took 3 fowls out of the henhouse, which they took to William Sinfield's at Chalk Hill. There was no price set on them nor was any bargain made.

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Hill, George,
Swanell, John,
Sinfield, William,
Brown, William Frederick,
Taylor, Daniel,
Snoxall, George

DUNSTABLE, Chalk Hill, stealing animals, fowls