QSR1847/4/5/3/b

Depositions and examination - Charles Hopkins

19 July 1847

From: 1847 To: 1847

Jesse Moss of Wavendon, labourer – he lives at Wavendon (Bucks) and works for Henry Charles Hoare esq. Part of Mr Hoare’s estate is in Aspley Guise. A fortnight ago last Saturday (July 3) he was at plough in a field of Mr Hoare’s called Lower End field in Aspley Guise. He left off in the afternoon and placed the plough by the side of the hedge which adjoins the road. He saw the plough again on 10 July. It was then just as he had left it on 3rd. The next time he aw it was on the 17th when he missed the coulter box and the share. The coulter box now produced is the same one. He has fitted it to the plough and it fits exactly. The share was broken off and both parts taken. He has seen pieces like them among the iron shown to him by the policeman but he can’t swear to it. William John Adkins – he is a farmer living at Aspley Guise. On Saturday 17th July he searched a truck of the prisoner’s containing old iron. He noticed the coulter box produced and remarked on it. He saw Hopkins wheeling the truck about 2 hours before he searched it. He was searching for iron of Mr William Warr’s when he found the coulter box. Hopkins was coming in the direction from Lower End Field when he saw him. Besides Mr Warr’s 2 plough shares he found 2 old ones, one nearly new and a broken one. John Assbee of Aspley Guise- he saw Hopkins at Aspley Guise on 17 July. Hopkins was wheeling a truck containing something very heavy which he said was old iron he was going to take to the foundry at Woburn. He helped Hopkins wheel it up the hill. He did not say where he had got the iron from . Hopkins left the truck on the top of the hill and went back to the village. He later went to the truck with William Adkins and saw it searched. Charles Hopkins – he has nothing to say.

item

Hopkins, Charles,
Moss, Jesse,
Assbee, John,
Adkins, William John,
Hoare, Henry Charles,
Warr, William

ASPLEY GUISE, Wavendon, Aspley Guise fields, stealing, agricultural implements, ploughs, ploughman