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Depositions and examination - Samuel Hawkins of Staploe

8 December 1846

From: 1846 To: 1847

James Stocker of Duloe in the parish of Eaton Socon, bailiff - on 25 November he had a quantity of carrots dug and lying in a field called the Old Farm field in the occupation of his master Edmund Read of Eaton Socon. They were left in the row as they were dug. On 26 November he missed about a bushel of them. He produces carrots from the same crop to compare with those produced by PC Nicol. They are a white carrot and of the sasme kind. The field was within 200 yards of Hawkins’ house. William Nicol of Eaton Socon, police constable - he produces some carrots he found under straw in Hawkins’ house, which he was searching in the expectation of finding stolen items. There was about a bushel of white carrots. Henry Ison Jebbett of Bedford, superintendent of police - he had Hawkins in custody on a charge of sheep stealing. PC Nicol had told him of the carrots found in Hawkins’ house. He asked Hawkins if he grew carrots and he said he did not. He said he took them from a field on his way from Little Staughton fire, and that they were lying on the ground and not pitted.

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Hawkins, Samuel,
Stocker, James,
Nicol, William,
Read, Edmund,
Jebbett, Henry Ison

STAPLOE, Duloe, EATON SOCON, stealing, carrots, bailiff, police constable