QSR1851/3/5/33/a

Depositions of James Oliver, farmer of Wootton, Paul Darby, labourer of Wootton, Philip Keep, farmer of Wootton, James Redman, sawyer of Wootton and George Cheney, police constable of Kempston. In the case of Jeremiah Newberry accused of killing a sheep and stealing a wheel of a turnip cutter.

17 May 1851

From: 1849 To: 1851

James Oliver: in April 1849 he received information and went to a field in his occupation in Wootton. He discovered a sheep lying dead with his head split. The sheep was his property. He missed from the same field a turnip cutter wheel. The previous week he saw the turnip cutter wheel, which he had missed in the field adjoining the one he had lost it from. It was in a ditch. Paul Darby: a labourer from Wootton who worked for Mr Oliver in April 1849. Philip Keep: from information given to him by his son Philip Keep, he took his dray to a field of Mr Oliver in Wootton. He went to the pond and dragged it, and took out the turnip cutter wheel. He hid it in the ditch against the pond. James Redman: about 15 month previous he had been working with Jeremiah Newberry at Wootton. He asked him if he knew who murdered Mr Oliver's sheep and took the turnip cutter wheel, and he told him no. Newberry told him it was him and Hutchins. Then said he had thrown the cutter wheel in the pond. George Cheney: on bringing the prisoner to the goal, the prisoner told him he would not suffer for another man and that it was William Rupell that 'did it'.

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Newberry, Jeremiah,
Oliver, James,
Darby, Paul,
Keep, Philip,
Redman, James,
Cheney, George,
Rupell, William

WOOTTON, stealing, stealing animals, sheep, agricultural implements, sawyer, farmer