Samuel Jory

An execution for rent had been ‘put in’ at Higher Bamham, and the sheriff’s officers went to levy distress.

They found the door of a farmhouse locked, and, having waited until the next day and still no admittance, they called upon the borough Constables to assist them in breaking the door open.

The Constables went to Bamham on the Sunday, and were preparing to force an entrance, the farmer and his two sons being inside, when Constable Samuel Jory was shot dead through the doorway.

Not being daunted, the remaining Constables made their way in and arrested the three, who were committed to the assizes at Bodmin charged with the murder.