QSR1841/3/5/20/a

Depositions and examination - Charles Roberts

4 May 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

Jonah King of Southill, labourer - he keeps rabbits. On Saturday 1 May at about 6am he was called up and found the rabbit hutches open and all his rabbits gone. There were 2 old black and white does, 2 sandy and white bucks and 9 young ones. He saw them safe in the hutch in his father's yard the previous eveinng. Last Monday he went with Billing the police constable to Henlow where Mr John Ell showed him six of the young rabbits - 2 were dead and 4 alive. That morning he went with another policeman Henry Gamble to Ickleford to the house of John Buckingham who showed him the doe he now produces. He is sure it is his - he knows it by its spots and its bandy legs. He has had it two years. John Buckingham of Ickleford (Herts), labourer - last Saturday morning Charles Roberts came to his house between 9 an 10am and sold him the doe rabbit. He said he came from Clifton. He gave Roberts 2s 4d for it. Charles Roberts - he bought the rabbits from James Osborne of Broome and another man who was with him onion weeding. He bought 4 of them - 2 black and white ones and 2 sandy and white ones. He gave 7s for the 4. It was about 5.30am. He sold the old doe to Buckingham and sold the other 3 to different people in Hitchin. He will take the policeman to the houses of the people to whom he sold them.

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Roberts, Charles,
King, Jonah,
Ell, John,
Gamble, Henry,
Billing,
Buckingham, John,
Osborne, James

SOUTHILL, ICKLEFORD, Broome, stealing animals, rabbits