| William Gore loses his watch... |
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Drawings
by
Rob Davies |
One of the
cases which came to court at Hay in 1892 concerned
the theft of a watch from William Gore,
a labourer, who was visiting the town from Blaenau, Monmouthshire. On 26th May he travelled by train to Hay to visit his uncle, arriving before ten in the morning. In the evening he went to the Bell Inn in Hay where he was to stay the night. He had a drink of beer there, and dozed off to sleep in a chair. He would have saved a lot of trouble if he had stayed awake ! This was part of William Gore's statement given to the court as part of the evidence... |
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Part
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court statement 1892 |
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| "... I felt no one bothering with me or my watch and chain, nor did I suspect any one. The prisoner was close to me sitting upon an adjoining chair. I dozed to sleep while the prisoner sat by me for a short time and when I awoke my watch was gone". |
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William
Gore knew that he had been robbed
while he was asleep..."I got up and said to
the Landlady "someone has taken my watch..."
More about the stolen watch...
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