QSR1836/4/5/39

Depositions and examination - John Moseley

23 August 1836

From: 1836 To: 1836

Thomas Robinson the younger – he lives at Arlesey and lodges in his father’s hosue. John Moseley has also been a lodger there for sometime. On Thursday 4 August he slept in the same bed as Moseley. About 2am he was woken by Moseley. As soon as he found out what Moseley was trying to do he hunched him with his elbow and told him if he did not lie still he would pull him out of bed and drag him downstairs by his hair. Moseley told him to lie still and not to make any alarm. Moseley then lay still and did not try any more. When he first woke Moseley was trying to turn him over and wanted to go on with him as if he was a woman. Thomas Robinson of Arlesey, labourer – John Moseley, a shoemaker, has been lodging at his house and sleeping in the same bed as his son Thomas. On Friday morning (5 August) he got up very early to go to work, between 4 and 5am. As he passed his son’s room he saw his son and Moseley in bed together. It was the last night Moseley ever slept in his house. He heard how Moseley had been going on with his son. Moseley did not come home on the Friday night, but came home with his son on the Saturday night. His son said Moseley should not come in. He was in bed but put his head out of the window and told Moseley that after what he had tried to do he should never sleep in his house again.

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Moseley, John,
Robinson, Thomas

ARLESEY, assault, sex crimes, shoemaker