QSR1844/3/5/1

Depositions and examination - Joseph Tatman, charged with stealing a crowbar belonging to William Tatman and Chalton

11 April 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

William Tatman of Chalton, farmer – he had a crowbar which he thinks had been on their farm ever since he was born. He was informed on Saturday April 6 by his lodger James Bone that it was missing. He saw it again in the hand of Peters, the Blunham police constable. James Bone – he is a labourer and works for Mr Tatman. He saw the bar now produced on his farm on Friday night. He had been using it and left it that night stuck up for a stake. When he came to work on Saturday morning he missed it. It is the bar produced by PC Peters. He knows the bar by the place where it has been spliced. Joseph Peters, police constable – on Tuesday he received information from Mr Tatman that he had lost a crowbar. From some circumstance he was induced to go to Joseph Tatman’s house this morning. Joseph Tatman was not at home but his wife gave him leave to look round the house and outhouse. In a barn belonging to the prisoner 5 yards from the house he found the bar produced. There were 2 other crowbars and several farmer’s tools in the barn. He showed the bar to William Tatman and James Bone who identified it. Joseph Tatman – he was working for Mr Thornton on Friday all day, the other side of Beeston Cross, and after work was over he went by direction of Mr Thornton’s steward to Mr [Wickes?] at Blunham and then home to Barford. He did not go near Mr Tatman’s farm. He does not know how the bar came to be in his barn.

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Tatman, William,
Tatman, Joseph,
Bone, James,
Peters, Joseph,
Thornton

Chalton, BLUNHAM, Beeston, Great Barford, stealing, tools, agricultural implements, farmer, farm labourer