Somerset Heritage Centre Archives Document
Q/SR/582/70 Examination - 4 Dec 1850
Transcribed by Veanne Treasure 12 Oct 2010
(James TREASURE b. 1829 d. 1910 ? Stoke Lane)



James Treasure stands charged before the undersigned, one of Her Majesty?s Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Somerset, this fourth day of December in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty for that he the said James Treasure on the second day of November last at the Parish of Stoke Lane otherwise Stoke Saint Michael in the said County did feloniously steal take and carry away one Husk of the value of Two pounds the property of John Giddings of the same parish Edge Tool Maker.

And the said Charge being read to the said James Treasure and the Witnesses for the Prosecution, John Giddons, Henry Goodfellow and Ann Fry being severally examined in his presence, the said James Treasure is now addressed by me as follows; ?Having heard the Evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to this Charge? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so; but whatever you say will be taken down in Writing, and may be Given in Evidence against you upon your Trial. And you are clearly to understand, that you have nothing to hope from any promise of favour, and nothing to fear from any threat which may have been holden out to you to induce you to make any admission or confession of your Guilt, but that whatever you shall now say may be given in Evidence against you upon your trial, notwithstanding such promise or threat;?

Whereupon the said James Treasure saith as follows:

?I don?t know either Mr or Mrs Fry. They never bought any iron of me.?

In presence before me) signed with a mark (X)
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Somerset Heritage Centre Archives Document
Q/SR/582/69 Information - 4 Dec 1850
Transcribed by Veanne Treasure 12 Oct 2010
(James TREASURE b. 1829 d.1910 - Stoke Lane)



THE DEPOSITIONS OF WITNESSES against James Treasure late of Stoke Lane otherwise Stoke Saint Michael in the said County, now charged before me the undersigned, one of Her Majesty?s Justices of the Peace, in and for the said County, with having feloniously stolen taken and carried away one Iron Husk the property of John Giddings of the same place.

Taken on Oath before me the said Justice, in the presence of the said James Treasure this fourth day of December in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty.

John Giddings on his oath saith follows:

I am an Edge tool maker and reside at Stoke Lane otherwise Stoke Saint Michael. On the twenty third of October last the iron husk now produced was lying in my yard near the Inn at Stoke Lane. About a week after that I missed it from my yard. I saw it at Mr Maggs foundry at Bourton Dorset on the twenty seventh of November last. The husk now produced is the same and the value of it is two pounds. The weight of it is two hundred ahalf and twenty one pounds.

Signed John Giddings

In presence and sworn before me

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Henry Goodfellow on his oath saith as follows:

I am clerk to Mr Oliver Maggs over Iron foundry at Bourton Dorset. Some day in the week ending the sixteenth day of November last James Fry of Bruton brought the iron husk now produced and this old iron to my master?s foundry. I bought it of him at 2/6 per Cwt the usual price for old iron. I know Fry as a collector of old iron and have bought of him before.

Signed H Goodfellow

In presence and sworn before me

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Ann Fry on her oath saith as follows:

I am the wife of James Fry a Dealer in marine stores. I know the prisoner James Treasure. On the evening of the fifth of November I saw the prisoner at my house he came to the gateway where I was.
He asked me if my husband was come home. I told him he was but he was gone out. He said I?ve got some iron. I said how much. He said I suppose between three and four hundred. He then went away. The next morning I went out in the shop about nine o?clock. I saw the prisoner there and one John Langley. My husband was weighing the iron husk now produced and I heard the prisoner say it was to be two shillings per hundred. He asked two shillings and sixpence per hundred after it was weighed my husband paid the prisoner for it.

Signed with a mark (X)

In presence and sworn before me

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