Friday 29 July 1910
Bicester Herald
Oxfordshire
SUDDEN DEATH OF A GIPSY. An inquest was held at Islip on Friday evening before the coroner, Mr. A. H. Franklin, to enquire into the circurnmstance attesting to the death of Spencer Draper, aged 35, a travelling espy, who died suddenly early the same morning. The following composed the jury : —Rev. J. H. Carter (foreman), Messrs. William edcraft, Victor Kimmel Cloning, Edward Steele, Edwin Payne, William Webb, Thomas Perrin, Henry lienard, Ernest liecklez, Whited Allen, Anthony Charlotte, and William Bull. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, in company with Elizabeth Smith (who lived with him), Abraham Draper his brother) and his wife, his mother, and five children, had been tramping the country, pea picking. for the last eight years, he had a house at Dunstable. On Thursday they came from Aynlio, near Banbury, with a weel trolley, which they had hired from Dustable, and camped in two tents at Charlton, in the evening ; the desessed Elizabeth Smith, had use of a tent and the rest of the party the other. At about One o'clock Smith ……
He was taken to the police conostable's house at Islip at about six o'clock. An examination was made, and death was found to be due to heart failure A verdict in accordance with the medical was returned. With the exception of the doctor, Elizabeth Smith Was the only witness
Saturday 10 September 1910
Bucks Herald
Buckinghamshire
The BUCKS HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
.—Wm. Cotchin, hawker, of Leighton Buzzard, pleaded guilty to driving horse and vehicle in Wing-road. Linslade, after sunset, without showing ...
Friday 02 July 1909
South Bucks Standard
Buckinghamshire
—Walter George Draper, of Amereham Common, was summoned for keeping a dog without a license.—He pleaded not guilty, and P.C. Walters stated that ....
Saturday 04 December 1909
Bucks Herald
Buckinghamshire
Game Trespass. George Smith and Ernest Draper (or Cotching). labourers, were summoned for trespassing on land in the occupation of Mr. Gains Batchelar in search of conies, at Eggington
Friday 07 February 1908
Leicester Daily Post
Leicestershire
…… she found some cut Moses under a chair of the room where the men bad been. Sarah Jane Scotching, wife of alias Draper, a labourer, of Hemel Road. London, stated that
Saturday 10 February 1900
Bucks Herald
Buckinghamshire
LEIGHTON BUZZARD
Thomas Cotchin, labourer, of Leighton Buzzard, pleaded guilty to a charge) of having carried a gun without a licence, at Eggington, on the 7th ...
Saturday 02 March 1907
Windsor and Eton Express
Berkshire
DEATH OF A CRIMEAN VETERAN.-The death took place at an early hour on Monday morning, at Clewer Fields, of John Draper, a fruit hawker, Deceased was at one time In the 49th Regiment, and after being in the Army for some ...
Friday 23 March 1906
Bicester Herald
Oxfordshire
STRAYING HORSE.— Alfred Draper, travelling hawker, was charged with allowing his horse to stray at Westbury. On the 19th February, 1905. —Defendant pleaded guilty, and ...
Friday 25 May 1906
Luton Times and Advertiser
Bedfordshire
THE GIPSIES AT CADDINGTON.
Martha Draper, hawker, pleaded guilty to Using obscene language at Caddington, on May 7th. P.s. James deposed that on the evening of May 7th
Saturday 03 November 1906
Bucks Herald
Buckinghamshire
Charge of Stealing Fowls. William Cotching. jun., of London, formerly employed on the Golf Links at Leighton Buzzard, was charged with stealing twenty live fowls