QSR1870/3/5/7

Depositions and examination - George Clarke of Aspley Guise, labourer, charged with obtaining 12 shillings from Somers Douglas, farmer, under false pretences

13 June 1870

From: 1870 To: 1870

Samuel Cook, son of John Cook of Aspley Guise, gardener - he lives with his father at Aspley guise. On Saturday morning 6 February 1869 at his father’s direction he applied to Somers Douglas for 12s for 6 loads of stones. Douglas said he had paid the money to George Clarke. He never gave Clarke any directions to receive the money for him or his father. He was not indebted to Clarke at all. He knows 6 loads of stones had been had from his father’s garden for Mr Douglas. He knows a labourer named Sedgwick was employed to get stones for Mr Douglas. He and Sedgwick were partners in getting the stones. Thomas Sedgwick of Aspley Guise, labourer – in February 1869 he had 6 loads of stones from John Cook’s garden. He sold them to Mr Somers Douglas for 12s. They were sent for by Mr Douglas’s men and removed to his farm at Aspley. He later applied to Mr Douglas for the money and Douglas said Clarke had received it. He had nothing to do with Clarke, and Clarke was not working with him at the time he got the stones. Clarke was working in the same field and said he was going to receive some money from Douglas for the stones he had raised. Clarke asked if he should receive his money from Douglas. He said Clarke might, but just as Clarke was leaving he said he was not to receive any money and Clarke said he would not. He never received any money from either Douglas or Clarke. He did not see Clarke again until last Tuesday 7 June. He never authorized Clarke to receive any money for him. He and Samuel Cook got the stones together. There was no partnership between him and Clarke. Samuel Armstrong, police constable stationed at Aspley Guise – in February 1869 he received a warrant to apprehend Clarke. Shortly before this Clarke left Aspley and had been absent ever since. He apprehended him at Aspley on Wednesday 8 June. He read the warrant to Clarke who said “very well. Nobody won’t appear against me and if they do I shall soon get over it”. John Cook of Aspley Guise, gardener – [as above] He never gave Clarke any authority to collect the money. Last Tuesday 7 June Clarke came to him and said “You will forget me for that job about the stones”. He said he had nothing to do with it. George Clarke – has nothing to say.

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Clarke, George,
Douglas, Somers,
Cook, Samuel,
Sedgwick, Thomas,
Armstrong, Samuel,
Cook, John

ASPLEY GUISE, false pretences, farmer, police constable, gardener, stone