QSR1831/4/5/6

Depositions of Robert Milemore, labourer of Luton. In the case of William Stratton, accused of stabbing the said Robert Milemore.

22 August 1831

From: 1831 To: 1831

Robert Milemore: Labourer of Luton. He works for Mr. Gregory and on Friday 19th August at about 5pm he was driving his master’s cart loaded with barley. He met the prisoner near the handpost on Dunstable Road driving Mr. Kidman’s cart. The prisoner called out to him, “Are you not ashamed of your own shadow driving two horses, I am driving one, much more two”, meaning that such work should be carried out by boys not by men. As he was going back with the cart empty he met the prisoner again opposite the Bury Farm with a load of oats in the cart. He got down and kicked the prisoner’s backside and gave him a pat of the face with the back of his hand. As he turned to walk away, the prisoner stabbed him in the back with a knife he had in his hand. He went on with the cart and horses towards the field and met a boy named Edward Rumbold. He asked the boy to tie his handkerchief around him to stop the blood but when the boy saw his cut he was afraid to do it. He then held out his handkerchief to the cut and drove on a litter further when he met his master. His master put him on his pony and told him to go to Mr. Walker, the doctor, which he proceeded to do and was treated by him.

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Milemore, Robert,
Stratton, William,
Kidman,
Rumbold, Edward,
Gregory

LUTON, cart, horses, stabbing, knife, barley, oats, handkerchief