QSR1830/462-463

Prosecution of Daniel Gray of Cardington by John White of Cardington, farmer, for stealing and driving away 6 pigs. Examinations and depositions of John White, George Burroughs, Daniel Gray.

October 1830

From: 1830 To: 1830

Information of John White: missed six pigs from his farmyard. Acting on information supplied by George Burroughs, he went with him to Pinchcoat Hall at Holwell, a public house kept by John Gray. There he found four of the six stolen pigs (the remaining two turned up in his farmyard again). Daniel Gray had been a labourer on his farm up to a week before the theft. Information of George Burroughs, pig drover in the service of John Gray who keeps the White Hart at Holwell: met Daniel Gray on the turnpike road driving four hogs, which he said he would sell for 27/- each. Accompanied him to his master's, who said he did not like the look of the hogs at that price and thought they were stolen goods. Daniel Gray then said "What the hell of odds does that make to you?". They then let him go and he went on towards Hitchin with the hogs. Burroughs then went to Hitchin to give information to the constable, and Daniel Gray seeing him ran away and left the hogs. Burroughs took them back to his master's and "gave notice of the hogs being stopped". John White saw them the following day and identified them as his. Examination of Daniel Gray: took the pigs out of a meadow. He was tipsy and when he got sober again he found himself on the turnpike with four pigs. Didn't know what to do with them, so agreed to sell them to "this young man".

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Gray, Daniel,
White, John,
Burroughs, George,
Gray, John

CARDINGTON, HOLWELL, Hitchin, farmer, drover, Holwell White Hart, stealing, pigs