- ReferenceQSR1847/4/5/21-22/a
- TitleDepositions - Thomas Hunt and William Hunt charged with stealing a quantity of beech wood from Thomas Langton, Daniel Langton and Walter Langton
- Date free text28 September 1847
- Production dateFrom: 1847 To: 1847
- Scope and ContentThomas Miles of Luton, labourer – he is foreman employed by Messrs Langton, timber merchangs in London. They have purchased the fall of timber in Luton Park in Luton from Charles Thomas Warde Esq. None of the woodmen are allowed to sell any wood over 2 feet long. If the pieces are under 2 feet and they do not charge for cross cutting they are allowed to have them. He marks the wood he has paid them to cross cut with red chalk to show it is Messrs Langton’s property. On 15 April he went to Thomas and William Hunt who were sawing wood. They had no chips. He told Bent and Hale, two of the woodmen, to go and split any wood they found lying around the pits marked with an “H”. On the afternoon of that day he left and did not return until April 23. He marks the wood that is split up for sale with an “H” to show it is Messrs Langton’s property. John Bent of Harpenden (Herts), labourer – on Friday 16 April he was working for Messrs Langton in Luton Park. William Fleckney had 2 loads of beech wood away from the Park on that day. They were cleft pieces of beech belonging to Messrs Langton. Thomas and William Hunt who were sawing there handed them over the palings to Fleckney. It was some of the wood the foreman had asked Hale and himself to split up, marked with an “H”. Joseph Hale of Harpenden (Herts), labourer – on 16 April he was at work in Luton Park with John Bent. He agrees with Bent’s evidence. William Fleckney of Caddington (Herts), labourer – he knows Thomas and William Hunt. On Friday 16 April he went to Luton Park and bought a load of wood from them. They were chips and pieces of cleft beech. They said they had them for cutting off.
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