QSR1827/316

Examinations & depositions - Information of Geo. Plummer, Ampthill, 'Labourer in the Nursery and Garden of Mr Thomas Gibbs at Ampthill'. When he left his work on a Friday evening the plants, trees and number pegs were alright. He went in the morning with Litchfield and Sam. Stonebridge, the boy 'who sleeps in the House', Thos. Baldock, unlocking the gate. They found many of the choice plants and seeds with the 'mould' turned out of their pots; about 300 number sticks removed and strewn about the walks and several grafts broken from their stocks. The damage in the large nursery appeared to have been caused by a person without shoes but in the other nursery there were shoe marks 'tipped at the heel and rights and lefts' which he took to be the prints of Jas. White. White had until 3 weeks previously worked for two and a half years for Mr Gibbs. Mr Goode the constable of Ampthill came to the nursery with Mr Jn. Greene; he tried a pair of shoes he had with the prints and they fitted; he also produced a stocking dirty at the foot which fitted the footmarks when there were no shoes, there was also dirt in one shoe, the other appeared to have been scratched out. Information of Wm. Litchfield, Ampthil, labourer; similar to above - Jas. White had worked in the nursery since he was a child and Litchfield himself since the nursery was first started.

1827

From: 1827 To: 1827

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Plummer, George,
Gibbs, Thomas,
Stonebridge, Samuel,
Baldock, Thomas,
White, James,
Goode,
Greene, John,
Litchfield, William

AMPTHILL, labourer, nursery