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The wife of the Landlord of the Bell
Inn at Hay was Olive Colley, and she said in her evidence that
a group of six men came to the Inn
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he woke up he came to me about 4 minutes afterwards and complained that
he had lost his watch and chain." When the Landlord, William Colley, returned to the Bell Inn shortly afterwards he stopped the other customers from leaving, and sent for Police Sergeant John Arthur. The policeman asked James Riley to come with him to the police station, and this was part of his statement... |
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Part
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court statement 1892 |
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"He came with
me and I searched him at the Police Station and I found the watched
[watch !] produced in his hip pocket. I told him I charged him
with stealing the watch and he said "All right I am left to it now".
I then locked him up". James Riley's unlikely story...
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