QSR1839/1/5/41

Depositions and examination - William Ellwood

28 and 29 December 1838

From: 1838 To: 1838

Samuel Fuller of Northill - he lives on Thorncote Green in Northill. On Monday December 24 William Ellwood, the carpenter employed by Stephen Thornton Esquire his landlord, was at work on his premises. In his granary there are a number of carrots, oats and beans. Between 5 and 6 o'clock he went into a beer shop on the Green. William Ellwood was there and from something he heard he suspected Ellwood had some of his property about him. After a few minutes his son Samuel Fuller took some mixed beans and oats out of Ellwood's pocket, which were the same sort as the beans and oats in his granary. There were also some carrots in a basket belonging to Ellword, of the same sort he has in his granary. Ellwood did not deny he had taken them. Samuel Fuller junior - he was in Gillion's beer shop on Thorncote Green, sitting next to William Ellwood. As Ellwood got up to move towards the fire he brushed by him and he felt what he suspected to be his father's corn in his pocket. He put his hand in Ellwood's pocket and took out a handful of oats and beans. Mrs Gillions gave him a basket to put the corn in. Ellwood several times begged his father's pardon. He had seen Ellwood put his basket of tools down outside the door when they entered. When he looked in it he found four carrots. William Ellwood - "had had a little beer than morning and a little gin as well, and he was as he did not know how".

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Ellwood, William,
Fuller, Samuel

NORTHILL, Northill Thorncote Green, stealing, oats, beans, carrots, carpenter