Reference
QSR1822/293
Title
Examinations and depositions: Information of Daniel Sinfield of Woburn, labourer regarding theft of his watch.
Date free text
1822
Production date
From: 1822 To: 1822
Scope and Content
He was dancing in the Greyhound public house at Woburn on January 1st, with many others. Thomas Newman of Woburn 'in joke snatched at hs watch and tore off the chain' whereupon Sinfield put the watch into his greatcoat pocket. He admits to being 'rather in liquor' at the time. 'His wife came for him soon after 7 o'clock. He immediately felt in his ... pocket, intending to give it [the watch] to her care, but it was gone. He saw the watch afterwards in a watchmakers shop at Woburn, left there for sale. The watch in now in the hands of Joseph Cox of Hog Sty End ... Apspley Guise. - who saith he bought it of William Pilgrim for a half gallon of ale.' William Pilgrim was in the Greyhound on the night it was stolen.
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