QSR1839/1/5/36

Depositions of William Cripps and Richard Hulse - Thomas Hobbs charged with stealing turkeys

20 December 1838

From: 1838 To: 1838

William Cripps of Caddington, farmer - about 11am that morning he went into his rick yard, saw the gate open and met a young man walking between the ricks. Waited for him to come out of the gate, then saw him making his escape across the meadow. He pursued him and round the angle of one of the ricks met the prisoner Thomas Hobbs also making his escape. He followed him across two fields into a 3rd and saw him throw two turkeys out of his pockets, one a cock and one a hen. He caught him after running more than a mile. The field in which Hobbs dropped the turkeys is called Cowslip Meadow. When they were thrown to the ground the cock was dead and the hen alive. Richard Hulse of parish of St Marylebone London, servant - heard 2 turkeys had been stolen and dropped in one of Mr Cripps' fields. He found them lying in Cowslip Meadow. When Mr Cripps returned he showed them to him and Cripps identified them as his property.

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Cripps, William,
Hulse, Richard,
Hobbs, Thomas

CADDINGTON, Marylebone, fields Caddington, stealing, turkeys