Reference
QSR1826/328-329
Title
Examinations and depositions regarding William Warner, accused of theft of 5 fowls.
Date free text
1826
Production date
From: 1826 To: 1826
Scope and Content
Information of James Witheridge of Warden, farmer's son. Heard someone in his father's yard at night. He went with their servant, David Hall, to the hen house and found William Warner with five dead hens. Sent for the constable. Dickens, the constable, who told him he had seen a man near the fence. Pursued a man he heard running away. Overtook James Warner, son of the prisoner, Thomas Bygraves, Samuel Bygraves and John Chesham. When asked how it was that they were there at the time they replied 'they thought it was six o'clock at which time they were ordered by my father to be at his house, he being overseer of the parish - they being out of work. One of them, Samuel Bygraves, said he knew if was very forward, as he had heard the "Bell Man" cry three o'clock just as they left Biggleswade.'
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