Seven Stars, Star Pitch, Mitcheldean

 

William Lloyd was charged with stealing at Mitcheldean, on the 7th of August, one pair of trousers, the property of William Lloyd. The prosecutor stated that he lives with his father, who keeps the Seven Stars at Mitcheldean; that on the evening of the 6th of August, the prisoner came to the house and slept there that night in the same room as the prosecutor, who the next morning got up about five o’clock, leaving the prisoner in the room. About half-past six o’clock the prisoner came down stairs with a bundle in his hand, with which he went away. In about an hour afterwards the prosecutor missed a pair of trousers and a pair of gloves from his box in the bedroom. Information was then given to the police, and the prisoner was apprehended at the Jolly Sailors, Newnham, with the stolen property in his possession. Verdict, guilty. Six months’ hard labour.

 

Above information courtesy Dr Martyn Beaufort

 

 

Banbury Guardian, Thursday 3rd June 1847 – Lamentable Charge of Parricide – Dreadful Consequences of Family Dissensions: On Monday week, William Lloyd, aged 27, was fully committed to Gloucester county goal, charged on the coroner’s inquisition, with the manslaughter of his father, Thomas Lloyd, at Mitcheldean, under circumstances of a very painful and revolting nature. The inquest was held before John Barnett, Esq., coroner, and a most respectable jury of 22 gentlemen of the neighbourhood, with Duncombe Pyrke, Esq., as foreman, and occupied three days, terminating on Saturday. The prisoner, whose conduct had unfitted him for situations he had held, lived with his parents, who kept the Seven Stars at Mitcheldean. A rent dinner had been held in the house at which some of his brothers were present. Afterwards he quarrelled with them, and on his father attempting to turn him out of the house he threw him down in the struggle, and death was the consequence.

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