Reference
QSR1821/327-328
Title
Examinations of Mary Lee, John Haines junior of Colmworth, Nathaniel Norman of Tillbrook, John Lewin, and Job Wilson of Kimbolton.
Date free text
1821
Production date
From: 1821 To: 1821
Scope and Content
Examination of Mary Lee of Colmworth, spinster: She saw in the evening, a fire in a field near her father's house; she extinguished it. A quarter of an hour after she saw her brother James Lee and John Mason together. The following morning she saw where the fire was kindled the entrails and hind of an animal which she believed to be those of a pig.Examination of John Haines junior of Colmworth, whose father keeps a public house. John Mason has lodged and slept with him for about six weeks but has been absent all night for two or three nights. Mason told him that he was going to see his sister in Chawston.Examination of John Lewin: as in QSR1821/321.Examination of Nathaniel Norman of Tillbrook, farmer. He went to Colmworth where a sack containing the fore quarters and one hind-quarter of a pig were brought to him which he recognised as those belonging to a pig he had lost. He did not think the pig had been killed by a butcher 'as it had the appearance of having its head cut off alive.'Examination of Job Wilson of Kimbolton. He applied for a warrant against John Mason and apprehended him.
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