QSR1847/3/5/32

Depositions and examination - James Scott, charged with stealing the tyre of a cart wheel from Edmund Rollins

31 May 1847

From: 1847 To: 1847

Edmund Rollins of Totternhoe – he holds some premises at Eaton Bray. On 26 May he found he had lost the tyre of a cart wheel. He went to PC Thorogood and then to William Gurney’s blacksmith’s shop with him. He found his tyre there which he knew by the wear and by its being marked with whitening. Scott holds a cottage at Eaton Bray from him and he allows him to put his donkey in the stable where the tyre was. Wiliam Gurney of Totternhoe, blacksmith – on Tuesday 18 May Scott brought the tyre to his shop and sold it to him for a shilling. On 26 May Rollins and PC Thorogood came and Rollins identified it as his. Thorogood took it away. John Thorogood of Eaton Bray, police constable – he went to Gurney’s with Rollins and found the tyre which Rollins identified as the one he had lost. On 31 May he apprehended Scott who said “I can’t deny I took the tyre. I did not know it belonged to him. I thought it belonged to the old man. I sold it to Gurney for a shilling”. He had not mentioned the tyre to Scott. By the old man he judged Scott meant John Rollins, Edmund Rollins’ father.

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Scott, James,
Rollins, Edmund,
Gurney, William,
Thorogood, John,
Rollins, John

TOTTERNHOE, EATON BRAY, stealing, carts, blacksmith, police constable, donkeys