QSR1839/3/5/18/b

Depositions and examination - Thomas Brown accused of assault

16 April 1839

From: 1839 To: 1839

Mary Brooks (additional deposition) - she is sure Thomas Brown is the boy who knocked her down. Elizabeth Brooks, wife of James Brooks of Cople - she remembers that on Thursday evening about 9 weeks ago at about 6pm her daughter returned home to her at Roxton Turnpike Gate after going to see her father at Cople Gate. She seemed very much confused and appeared frightened. She was in convulsions when she came home and continued in convulsions all night, and the next morning was in a strong fit. Since then she has been subject to such fits. She was admitted to Bedford Infirmary where she now is. She was out of the Infirmary for about 10 days but was a great deal worse so was readmitted. She never had such fits before that evening. The Saturday after she told Elizabeth that a boy had frightened her, shaken her, made her nose bleed, knocked her down and set a dog on her on the evening when the convulsions first came on. Thomas Pavings of Willington, shepherd, aged 17 - on the night when it was said the little girl was knocked down he saw Thomas Brown going down the street with a dog which is partly his and partly his father's. The dog was not with Pavings that night. It is white faced and spotted, without a tail. Two or three days later Thomas Brown told him that he met a little girl on the road with the dog that night. Mary Brooks - has now seen John Palmer, the boy the defendant says was dressed exactly like him and looks like him, and is sure he was not the boy who frightened her and knocked her down. She is sure it was Thomas Brown. Thomas Brown - swears it was not him.

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Brown, Thomas,
Brooks, Mary,
Brooks, Elizabeth,
Brooks, James,
Pavings, Thomas,
Palmer, John

assault, COPLE, WILLINGTON, Cople Gate, Roxton Gate, Bedford Infirmary, convulsions, dogs