Reference
QSR1823/349
Title
Examinations and depositions: Information of Thomas Cutler, labourer, father of John Cutler and of John Housett of Bedford, surgeon, regarding accusation that Edward Jeffries assaulted Thomas Cutler.
Date free text
1823
Production date
From: 1823 To: 1823
Scope and Content
Information of Thomas Cutler. When he got into the house Edward Jeffries told him 'his saucy son had been abusing his mistress.' Thomas Cutler stripped his son before Jeffries 'his shoulders were all black and blue and so were his ears had his face .... one side of my son's face was all over blood' he told jeffries that he would take his son to a magistrate and he replied that 'I might and be damned.'Information of John Dousett, who examined the boy and described his injuries and 'found it necessary to bleed the boy, and I gave him an opening draught and a lotion... I said I thought they could not get home - the father said they would try - but they came back in about a quarter of an hour - he looked faint and ill... they took abed for boy at bedford .. he is not well enough to go home and ought not to go for two or three days ... if a fever should come on I could not account for the consquence.'
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