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Depositions and guilty plea - Samuel Skevington and Robert Cockings charged with stealing 2 fowls (value 6s) and a sack (value 6d) at Carlton on 15 June 1879 from Henry Venn Ellis of Chellington, farmer. Summarily convicted at Sharnbrook Petty Sessions. [Originally filed with Quarter Sessions records]

27 June 1879

From: 1879 To: 1879

Robert Parris of Carlton, labourer – he is employed by Mr Ellis the prosecutor. On Sunday 15 June he was going to feed the horses at the stables near the Rectory and saw the two defendants, whom he knows very well, coming out of a barn at about 4pm. Skevington was carrying a sack with something in it, apparently alive. They did not see him. He told Joseph Stock the foreman of it at about 7.30. Joseph Stock of Carlton, foreman – on the evening of Sunday 15th he saw some fowls’ feathers in one of the barns. On enquiring about it he found the two prisoners had been there and had taken something away in a sack. He met with Cockings and found he had taken 2 fowls and a sack to Skevington’s father’s house. Cockings brought the sack and fowls to him. Thomas Page of Harrold, police constable – he apprehended the prisoners and charged them with stealing the fowls and the sack. They confessed they had stolen them, and also said that they had afterwards taken them back again. Samuel Skevington and Robert Cockings – pleaded guilty. Each sentenced to 14 days imprisonment with hard labour at Sharnbrook Petty Sessions.

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Skevington, Samuel,
Cockings, Robert,
Ellis, Henry Venn,
Parris, Robert,
Stock, Joseph,
Page, Thomas

CARLTON, CHELLINGTON, HARROLD, stealing animals, fowls, farmer, police constable, foreman, Sharnbrook Petty Sessions