Person:George Fox (2)

At the Spring Quarter Sessions of 1848 George Fox and his brother William are charged with "Housebreaking in the Parish of Chewton Mendip in that they did break into a dwellinghouse the property of Samuel Pople and stole a gun". Faced with the charge both of them "Saith" - "I have nothing to say". The case is brought on 10th January 1848 at Bath. There are statements on oath by Samuel Pople the owner of the property in Chewton Mendip who says that he left his property on the 6th January at about 12 O'Clock locking the property the a D lock on the outhouse door. He returned on the 7th January at about 8 O'Clock and found the outhouse door open and found that "the gun I had borrowed from Mr Mutch had been stolen and I missed a quantity of bread and cheese and onions and apples" Jonathan Much who confirms that the gun was owned by himself untill four or five years ago he lent it to Samuel Pople. It's a value was Fifty Shilliings. Richard Burton Chief Inspector of the Great Western Railway Police who stated that on 7th January the prisoners "were given into his charge for committing a ......... on the Railway" Edwin Walrond a pawnbroker of Bath stated that "on Friday the 7th January about 11 O'Clock the prisoner George Fox came to the shop and pawned the gun now produced and I lent him Ten Shillings on it" The brothers are each "Convicted of felony, let them be severally imprisoned and kept in hard labour for eight months in the House of Correction at Shepton Mallett."