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Depositions of Henry Peak, farmer of Folksworth, Thomas Fensom, yeoman of Bolnhurst, George Fuller, yeoman of Wilden, William Snell, police constable of Keysoe and John King, police constable of Riseley. In the case of Emery Fuller accused of stealing a set of Horse gears and a halter.

19 July 1853

From: 1853 To: 1853

Henry Peak: in the months of August and September 1852 he was a farmer living in Colmworth. After wheat casting he left a set of gears and a pair of harness in the field. He had told his servant to take them from the field but he had failed to do so. Towards the end of the week he saw them again and put them aside. The following morning they had gone. He identified the gears shown to him on the premises of Henry Fuller as those which had gone missing. He saw the halter in the cart of George Fuller of Wilden and identified it as his. It was lost between November and Christmas. He asked Emery Fuller about the gears and harness at the time of the loss. Emery Fuller had been in his service. He said he knew nothing of them. Peak searched the ditches and hedges with the help of Emery Fuller. Emery lived with his father Henry Fuller. Thomas Fensom: he had borrowed the harness from George Fuller of Wilden. George Fuller: he last saw the harness and leather halter in his stable in February. Emery Fuller said he had put them there and would lend them to him. William Snell: on 27 September he received information from Mr Peak that he had lost some gears and a pair of harness. On 19 June he was passing through a field in Colmworth occupied by Emery Fuller and saw a set of gears lying on the ground under a smock frock. He did not see them again until he found them in the stable of Henry Fuller. He took possession of the gears, harness and halter from George Fuller’s and all the items were identified by Mr Peak. Henry Fuller said he knew nothing of the gears. Snell apprehended Emery Fuller and he stated he had found the gears and harness in a ditch in one of Mr Peaks fields, two weeks after Christmas. Henry Fuller claimed the halter as his, saying he had bought it from someone called Renshaw. John King: he was at Henry Fuller’s house and he said that he had brought the gears and other things out of the field. He understood him to mean Emery’s field.

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Fuller, Emery,
Peak, Henry,
Fuller, Henry,
Fensom, Thomas,
Fuller, George,
Snell, William,
King, John

COLMWORTH, BOLNHURST, WILDEN, KEYSOE, RISELEY, yeoman, stealing, harness