QSR1844/4/5/30

Depositions and examination - William Curtis charged with bestiality

6 July 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

George Harpur of Renhold, labourer – he works for Mr John Joyce, a farmer at Renhold. William Curtis is Joyce’s horsekeeper. A week ago (June 29) he was going to work as he was going to work he went to the stables. The door was open … [description] … The stable holds 7 horses. He believes there were 6 in the stable then. He went away without speaking to Curtis. About 2 or 3 hours later he told Richardson, who works on the farm, what he saw Curtis do. He did not tell anybody else or say anything to Curtis. The next morning Curtis came to him and asked how he came to tell that lie about him. He told Curtis it was not a lie. Curtis said nothing else. He thinks Curtis did not see him watching at the stable door at all. He went into the stable when Curtis had done. Curtis saw him then but they did not speak. William Curtis of Renhold, labourer – he had a half bushel scuttle in the stable to do his shoes up on. When he had done his shoes up he went outside on the horse muck to do a job for himself and heard this boy open the gate. He ran up and went into the stable to do his breeches up. The boy came in while he was doing his breeches up and asked if he should clean the stable. He told him he might if he would. He never had any bricks loose in the stable, only what were loose from the underpinning which the horses kicked out.

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Curtis, William,
Harpur, George

RENHOLD, sex crimes, horses, farmer, farm labourer, horsekeeper, stables