QSR1843/3/5/12

Depositions and examination - Samuel Stanton of Keysoe

23 May 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

Thomas Tinsley of Bedford, labourer - he was living at Riseley last December and was working on Mr Beale's farm in that parish. On the day Mr Gell's fire took place at Keysoe Row (2 December) he left a shovel and a spade in a bush on Mr Beales farm after his work was finished. The next morning the shovel and the spade were gone. Last friday from information he received he went to Samuel Stanton who was working for Mr Beale and saw the shovel he had lost lying on the ground beside him. Stanton told him he had borrowed the shovel but did not say when. He told PC Dale, who took Stanton into custody. The shovel now produced is his and is the one Stanton had been using. The value of the shovel is 1s. Charles Dale one of the Rural Police - last Saturday morning from information given by Thomas Tinsley he took Samuel Stanton into custody for stealing a shovel. Stanton said he had borrowed the shovel from his brother John Stanton and that he and his brother William had been trying to settle with Tinsley. John Stanton has absented himself from his home. Samuel Stanton - nothing to say.

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Stanton, Samuel,
Tinsley, Thomas,
Dale, Charles,
Stanton, John,
Stanton, William,
Beale,
Gell

RISELEY, KEYSOE, stealing, tools, police constable