Reference
QSR1824/412-413
Title
Examinations and depositions regarding John Chapman of Flitton, accused of theft of a pig from John Walker.
Date free text
1824
Production date
From: 1824 To: 1824
Scope and Content
Information of John Walker of Flitwick, victualler. Some labourers called at his house on their way to work and told him there was a large hole in his sty and it looked as though his hog had gone. He found the footprints of a pig and those of a man as far as the brook. He has since seen a carcase of a pig, which he believes to be his.
James Negus was asked by Jonathan Biggs to go to his father-in-laws to search for the pig. Negus and Walker followed the prints to the brook and he, Negus, went over a hedge into an adjoining meadow. He saw pigs entrails floating in the water. He traced the man's footsteps to the house of John Chapman of Greenfield. Leaving a guard on the house he went back to the constable of Flitton for a search warrant.
Searching the house he found a pigs head wrapped in a shawl, some loaf fat in a bag. John Chapman's wfie, Fanny, tried to make off with the head and some liver, remarking that what she bought she had a right to. The carcase of the hog was eventually found in a sack by the constable.
Information of William Chapman of Flitton, constable. Similar to the foregoing.
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