QSR1835/3/5/29

Depositions and examination - Joseph Hare charged with stealign 3 pecks of wheat from Charles Hill

26 May 1835

From: 1835 To: 1835

Isaac Spencer of Hitchin (Herts), yeoman – on Wednesday 13 May he had a search warrant to search Hare’s house at Shillington for some mutton which had been lost and was supposed to be concealed there. In searching Hare’s bedroom he found a sack containing 3 pecks of wheat under the pillow. He took it away and it is now produced. It is white and red wheat mixed, with a few white oats amongst it and here and there a smut ball. Hare was not at home at the time. Charles Hill of Shillington, yeoman – he is a farmer and lives at Holwell Bury in the parish of Shillington. About 5 weeks ago Joseph Hare was at work for him threshing some wheat. It was white and red wheat mixed and had a few white oats among it, a few smut balls and some small flat seeds of a weed of which he does not know the name growing amongst it. While Hare was threshing it he thought he did not get so much wheat out of the straw as he ought to have done. Soon after that he discharged Hare. He has examined the wheat produced by Spencer the constable and it corresponds exactly with his wheat. Joseph Hare of Shillington – “That wheat never grew on Mr Hill’s farm”

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Hare, Joseph,
Hill, Charles,
Spencer, Isaac

SHILLINGTON, Holwell Bury, Hitchin, stealing, wheat, oats, mutton, threshing, farmer, farm labourer, constable