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Deposition - Robert Roe charged wtih a riot at Eaton Bray

31 July 1846

From: 1846 To: 1846

Thomas Sinfield of Houghton Regis, police constable – on 19 May about 7pm he and PC Hatfield were coming out of the house where they lodge at Eaton Bray when they saw a large mob of people opposite shouting and making a great noise. Robert Roe was among them and was very active in making the disturbance. He had put Gadsden Fountain in the stocks for drunkenness in the morning. Four of the mob were carrying him in a chair. William Rollings fired off a gun 3 or 4 times. Roe was near him at the time. The mob were calling out Badger and Pibble meaning himself and Hatfield, and “the police shan’t beat us”.

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Roe, Robert,
Sinfield, Thomas,
Fountain, Gadsden,
Rollings, William,
Hatfield, John

HOUGHTON REGIS, rioting, police constable, drunkenness, punishment