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Four strangers
on the road with odd accents must have been very noticable, and this was
a time when people were very suspicious of strangers. The police set out
to track down them down and question them.
The day after the theft at Mrs Davies' house in Welshpool, the four strangers
from the midlands arrived at a lodging house in Shrewsbury.
There they stayed overnight and said that they would be staying on for
a while.
Susan Shaw ran the lodging house with her husband. She later told the
authorities what happened and her statement was written down. She could
not read or write so signed the statement with her mark...
The
Welshpool police had sent a message to him and he sprang into action ! He
knew all the places where someone could sell or pawn clothes, and eventually
tracked the four down to the Bell Inn
where he arrested them.