QSR1830/464-465

Information of John Walker of Stagsden, victualler, who keeps the Leather Bottle PH at Dropshort, Stagsden.

September 1830

From: 1830 To: 1830

Joel Denton, Thomas Pugh, Lewis Wooding and Thomas White came into his house and ordered beer. As he was drawing the beer he heard a sound as if someone was "meddling with some Ropes of Onions which were hanging in the Chimney Corner" near where Denton was sitting. When he went back with a second pot of beer he missed a glass from the table. He refused them more beer without payment first. Wooding said he would be damned if he would not draw it himself, and then went towards the cellar door. Walker agreed to get the beer if they would sit down peaceably and pay, which they said they would. He fetched the beer but they did not pay, and he accused them of stealing the onions and the glass. Denton said he would be damned if he would not murder any man who said he stole anything out of the house. Shortly after this they went out, having had 4 or 5 pots of beer. Wooding carried away the last pot; the last 2 pots were not paid for. Walker went out and followed them towards Stagsden for 100 yards, when they turned round and saw him. They drank the remaining beer, and then Wooding went up to him and threw "the froth of the beer left at the bottom" in his face, and then smashed the pot on the road. Walker went back home and locked himself in. They came back and tried to force the door. When he opened a window and asked them to go, Wooding and Pugh spat at him, and either Denton or White threw a stone and broke the window. He then went into another room where there were no windows and waited until they left, when he found a tin pot was missing. Soon after they had gone he went down the road and found the tin pot together with 2 or 3 onions lying in the road.

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Denton, Joel,
Pugh, Thomas,
Wooding, Lewis,
White, Thomas,
Walker, John

STAGSDEN, Stagsden Dropshort, victualler, stealing, onions