QSR1870/4/5/15/a

Deposition and examination - Tempest Ebenezer Handscombe, charged with taking a watch belonging to William Single for which he was the bailee for his own use

12 October 1870

From: 1870 To: 1870

Caroline Single, wife of William Single of Girtford in the parish of Sandy – in September 1869 she fetched her husband’s watch downstairs at his direction and gave it to Tempest E Handscombe to clean it and put a new dial in it. He promised to do it up well for 7s 6d and said he would keep it for 3 weeks. About a month later Handscombe came to her house and said he would bring the watch the next time he came. Later in the autumn of 1869 she met Handscombe when she was riding in a cart with her husband. They stopped him and asked for the watch. He said it was done and he would bring it next time he came. Since then he has not brought it. Her husband has lumbago and is in bed. [Cross-examined] Handscombe had cleaned her clock and did it very well. She did not give him a cup of tea, but maybe a glass of beer. She has not seen him repeatedly. She may have seen him twice since. He said it was done ready for delivery but they never got it. Tempest Ebenezer Handscombe – there was no specified time named when it was given to him to repair. It is ready for delivery now.

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Handscombe, Tempest Ebenezer,
Single, Caroline,
Single, William

Girtford, SANDY, watches, lumbago