QSR1870/3/5/1

Depositions and examination - James Hines of Toddington, labourer, charged with obtaining 4 pints of beer value 8d from Thomas Horley by false pretences

25 March 1870

From: 1870 To: 1870

Thomas Horley of Toddington, innkeeper - he keeps the Sow and Pigs at Toddington. Hines is a labourer there and he knows him well. On Saturday 12 March about 3pm Hines came to his house and asked for 3 pints of beer which he put into a bottle Hines had with him. Hines said he was working for Emanuel Fletcher who would pay for it. Later in the same day about 5pm Hines came again and ordered another pint of beer, also to be put down to Emanuel Fletcher. He therefore booked the beer down to Mr Fletcher. He would not have let Hines have it if he had not used Mr Fletcher’s name. He would not have trusted Hines for 1 pint or for a ½ pint. The value of the 4 pints of beer is 8d. That evening he saw Mr Fletcher at his house and told him he owed him 8d for the beer Hines had. [Reply that Fletcher never authorised Hines to have the beer in his name deleted]. He gave Hines into custody. Emanuel Fletcher of Toddington, carter - he knows Hines well. Hines has worked for him occasionally, but was not at work for him on 12 March and has not worked for him for 2 or 3 years. He had seen Hines a day or two before but had never authorised him to go to Mr Horley’s or anywhere else for beer. He asked when Hines was going to tie Mrs Scrivener’s hay. Hines replied they were going to fetch it themselves. He said they were only going to take the top off, leaving the rest for him to tie up. He said he had 12 truss coming to him to make up his quantity and if Hines would like to look out for him 12 good trusses he would treat Hines sometime. That was all that passed between them. He never mentioned beer or Mr Horley’s and never allows anyone to have beer put down to him. John Olden, police sergeant stationed at Toddington - on Saturday evening March 12 Hines was given into his custody by Thomas Horley for obtaining 4 pints of beer in the name of Emanuel Fletcher. Hines said he had the beer, he did not see Feltcher and Fletcher did not know anything about it. After he took Hines to the Woburn lock up Hines said "I shall tell the truth about it". James Hines - "I have not got anything to say".

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Hines, James,
Horley, Thomas,
Fletcher, Emanuel,
Olden, John

TODDINGTON, false pretences, beer, innkeeper, carter, police sergeant, Toddington Sow and Pigs, hay, lock ups