File MB1/46. - Copy deposition of Andrew Breese, sheriff's officer, and Charles Thomas Woosnam, attorney at law, both of Newtown, respecting the riot ...,

Copy deposition of Andrew Breese, sheriff's officer, and Charles Thomas Woosnam, attorney at law, both of Newtown, respecting the riot at Llanidloes. The former, who was sworn in as a special constable, gives an account of the capture of three offenders, the destruction of the hotel, and his own ill- treatment. Both deponents proceed to relate a conversation with one Thomas Powell of Welshpool, who, though an avowed Chartist, did not approve of the riotous conduct of the Llanidloes people, who 'were most unmanageable and desperate'. It will be impossible, they consider, to recapture the prisoners without the assistance of a military force. Newtown, they add, has been for some time past paraded at night by bands of persons in military order.