QSR1836/4/5/26

Depositions and examination - Samuel Morris charged wtih stealing one pottle and a half of pollard and 4 potatoes

26 September 1836

From: 1836 To: 1836

George Joyce of Kempston, farmer and baker – Morris has been in his employ as a labourer for 6 or 7 years. He was watching him as he suspected his honesty. Last Friday afternoon (23 September ) Morris went to his bran and pollard chamber to fetch bran for his horses. He went up his own staircase and looked out of the “attack” window into the pollard chamber and watched Morris. He saw him fill a bag with bran and pollard then place it in his hat. He also took 4 potatoes out of another bin in the same chamber and put them in his jacket pockets. Morris put the hat with the bag in on his head and went down the ladder to the stable. He followed Morris to the stableand acused him. He took Morris’s hat off and took the bag out of the hat, and also took the potatoes out of his jacket pocket. Altogether they were worth 2d. Samuel Morris – declined to say anything in his defence.

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Morris, Samuel,
Joyce, George

KEMPSTON, stealing, pollard, potatoes, farmer, baker