Reference
QSR1835/4/5/2
Title
The Information of Thomas Norman, Labourer and David Compton, Innkeeper of the Crown Public House both of Potton in the County of Bedford and Joshua Wildman, Miller, of Gamlingay.
In the case of Thomas Redman charged with stealing five Bushels of Wheat the property of Thomas Hagger
Date free text
22nd July 1835
Production date
From: 1835 To: 1835
Scope and Content
Deposition of Thomas Norman: I am Ostler at the Crown Public House at Potton in this County On Saturday last the twenty eighteenth day of July instant I saw Thomas Redman now prevent take a ladder and go up to a shop in the Crown yard rented by Mr Thomas Hagger because with him a Bushel and a wooden shovel and in about ten minutes he came down again with a sack of wheat on his shoulder and he set it in the Common shop close to the ladder foot. About two hours afterwards I saw him put a sack of wheat into the cart of Mr Wildman the Miller of Gamlingay which was in the yard which carried it away. Redman is employed by the Landlord of the Crown as a sack carrier to take corn in and out for those who hire shops in the yard. Mr Wildman was with his cart and received the wheat from Radman.
The said David Compton on Oath saith as follows: I keep the Crown Inn in Potton – Mr Thomas Hagger hired a Corn Shop in my yard – and when Haggar sends and corn into the shop it is Redman business to measure and bring me an account of it. By then accounts which he has to render it appears that there more forty one loads and three bushels of wheat in that shop on Saturday last. In consequence of Information received from Thomas Norman I sent for Redman and asked him what he had done with the load of wheat which he brought down out of Mr Hagger’s shop and he told me that he had taken it back again. This was about eight o’clock in the evening. Not being satisfied about it I went to Mr. Wildman’s mill and saw him and he showed me the sack which contained the wheat he had brought from my yard at Potton and I brought a sample of it away. I saw Mr. Haggar that evening and by his direction had then wheat in his shop measured on the following Monday and these proved to be thirty eight loads and three Bushels. This morning the twenty second of July Redman came into my yard and asked me if I wanted him and I said no. He then said “I have done wrong and I am sorry fro it and I said to him that he had better speak to Mr Hagger as it was his wheat and I had nothing to do with it - and he made no reply.
The Information of Joshua Wildman of Gamlingay, Miller: I went with my cart to Potton on Saturday the Eighteenth of July last and about four or five o’clock in the afternoon I went into the yard on the Crown Inn and saw Thomas Redman the Sack Carrier – he told me he had got a sack of wheat for you me to grind for David Arnold of Gamlingay and as soon as my cart came into the yard we went into the Common Shop of that yard and he and I shot a sack of wheat from out of the rack it stood in into a sack of David Arnold which he produced – and I took the wheat home and set in the round house which is under my mill- Between nine and ten o’clock in the evening Mr David Compton came and took a sample of the wheat away in my presence and on the following Tuesday the Bulk was fetched away but I was not home. I asked Redman where he got the wheat from and he said from a man at Sandy.
Statement of Accused: I have nothing to say in my defence – I know I did it that is all.
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