A police journal of the 1840's 2
To keep fear on them
Another example of the suspicion with which some local people were regarded is evident in the extract below from the Police Journal kept by a local constable in Montgomeryshire.
County Archives
M/SOC/7/42
This entry, dated 31st January 1844, reads as follows:
"I went to the House of a Elizabeth Evans on the teskin.
I loocked it all over, thare is about 15 in family on them and
the[y] are Suspected to Plunder Coal or Potatas or any
thing the[y] can com a cross..
My intention was to keep fear on them. I stoped in that nabourhood
for Som hours."
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