Reference
QSR1822/309
Title
Examinations and depositions. Information of Thomas Clarkson of Blunham, farmer.
Date free text
1822
Production date
From: 1822 To: 1822
Scope and Content
About 1.00 a.m a pigeon flew against the window with so much force as to wake him, and kept fluttering at the window till he got up. He went and called his brothers. He heard a cart in the road ... His two brothers took one a poker and the other a fork and he [Thomas] took a stick; and went out.
Remaining evidence similar to that of his brother [QSR1822/308] except Thomas went the other awy and found two men in a close 'and laid hold of one, charging him with robbing the dove house - they said nothing; both began to beat him and he kept hold of one (John Adams) and struggled with him for half an hour or more; one of the men ran away after about ten minutes ...' Henry Clarkson came to help him but as soon as John Adamas 'was on his legs' he struck Thomas Clarkson 'on the face with the utmost violence.' They later found a hat handkerchief and blue apron which had been dropped in the close.
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