Gaol Record Detail For: Thomas Gobby Record ID: 7009 Commital Year: 1842 Reference Doc: BLARS QGV10/2 ID in Reference Doc: 1180 Age: 27 Gender: Male Height: 5 feet 8 inches Hair Colour: Brown Eye Colour: Hazel Complexion: Sallow Identifying Features: Lock of white hair over the forehead Education: Neither Birth Town: Chalton Birth County: Bedfordshire Residence(town/village): Toddington Residence(county): Bedfordshire Offence: Stealing a Scythe Committed By: W.D.C.Cooper Esquire When Committed: 1 Aug 1842 Trial Session: Michaelmas 1842 Type of Gaol: Bedford County Gaol Sentence: 6 Weeks Hard Labour General Remarks on Prisoner: Orderly
Northampton Mercury, Saturday 22nd October 1842 THOMAS GOBBY, of Toddington, charged with having stolen a scythe, the property of Joseph Medcroft of Toddington. The prosecutor missed a scythe whuch he hung up in a hovel on the 1st of July. He told several people of it so as to guard them against buying it. On the last day of the month he found that a man named Scrivener had got it. He knew the scythe by a private mark he had filed on the back. James Scrivener.-On the 30th of July bought a scythe of prisoner for 2s. and a half pint of beer. The next morning Medcroft owned it. Prisoner said he bought the scythe at Colney for half-a-crown. Guilty - Six Weeks' Hard Labour.
