John Winstone's statement reads -
"I am a Baker and live in Broad Street, Hay. On Saturday last in the afternoon the Prisoner [William Magness] called upon me and asked one if I wanted to buy an axe. He said it had a new handle in it. I declined to purchase same. He had not any axe with him."

It wasn't a very good idea to go around trying to sell stolen property so openly, since a local baker might have regular business with the Swan Hotel.
The next person to give evidence was the local Police Sergeant, Henry Jones. See the next page...

Sergeant Jones gets a search warrant...