Hay
and district
Crime and punishment
Missing from the stable at the Swan... | ||
George Price
was employed by the Innkeeper at the Swan Hotel
as a servant, and he gave evidence to the court about the loss
of the axe and the billhook, or hacker. |
Part
of
court statement 1878 |
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"The Prisoner
William Magness was employed on that day sweeping the yard at the Hotel.
I missed the Axe and Hacker on Monday. They were not then in the Stable
where I had left them. I searched for same but did not find them. I told
my master that they had been lost on the following day". It seems likely that
William Magness was just being employed as a casual
worker by the Swan Hotel, so he was probably an early suspect
after the tools disappeared. The baker from Broad Street...
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