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Depositions - James Bails charged wtih stealing a quantity of faggots from Joseph Richardson

7 June 1847

From: 1847 To: 1847

Joseph Richardson of Caddington, farmer – he lives at Woodside in Caddington. He had a quantity of faggots in his stack yard and has lost a great many. Some were lying among some mangelwurzel before they were stacked and got very dirty. Some of the dirty ones were lying loose in the stack. He saw yesterday morning that some of the faggots were gone. The faggots now produced are dirty in the same way as those in the stack. He has lost more than 200 faggots this winter. John Millard of Luton, police constable – yesterday morning about 3am he was at Woodside and saw Bails coming up the road with a quantity of faggots on his back, coming from Mr Richardson’s stack yard. Bails saw him, threw them down and ran away. He followed Bails through several fields and lost him in a brick yard. He later took him at his house. When he first went to the house the door was open. He told Bails he was taking him into custody for stealing faggots from Richardson’s rick yard. Bails said there was a footpath through the rick yard. He told Bails there was no footpath on the top of the faggot stack. Bails said he did not have them from the top, but from the bottom, and that this was the first time he had ever had any. Bails said he had them from the place where the faggots were very dirty and looked as though they had been laying on ploughed land. He traced Bails footmarks from his house to the rickyard before taking him into custody.

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Bails, James,
Richardson, Joseph

CADDINGTON, Woodside, stealing, wood, farmer, mangelwurzels