QSR1836/1/5/41

Depositions and examination - William Halfhead

4 January 1836

From: 1836 To: 1836

Joseph Cox of Hawnes – on 11th July he met William Halfhead in Lawrence Atterbury’s mill yard at Hawnes with a quantity of hurdle poles on his shoulder. He told him he should not take a man’s poles away and had better lay them down again. Halfhead did not lay the poles down but carried them off Atterbury’s premises. They were not brought back during the 2 or 3 minutes he remained there. The next morning he saw the same poles lying in the mill yard near the place where he saw Halfhead with them. He does not know when or by whom they were brought back. Lawrence Atterbury of Hawnes – on 11 July he was not at home and he did not suspect any of his poles had stolen until the next morning when he saw a lot of poles lying in the Mill Yard and found they belonged to him. He went to his house which is about 50 or 60 poles from the mill and enquired of William Castleman, who has the care o the mill, how the poles came to be their. Castleman said he knew nothing about them and they were not there when he left the mill at about 8pm the evening before. He found from Joseph Cox that Halfhead had been seen with the poles in the act of carrying them away. On the 11th the poles were lying in a ditch close to his garden about 50 poles from the mill yard where they were found on the 12th. William Halfhead – nothing to say.

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Halfhead, William,
Atterbury, Lawrence,
Cox, Joseph

HAYNES, stealing, fencing, MILLS