Village History
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witness. ” 1 was awakened hv httht in the bedroom which startled me. fo till appearances it was the light of a match. jumped up in bed and said What are you doing and ‘ What do you wantor words that cffe-d. Ihe light immediately went out. received reply to my question. T heard a bump at the Ixillom of the stairs if somebody was going down and had knocked something. got out of bed and switched my torch. looked at (he clock and saw that it was twenty minutes to two. I put trousers on with the thought of going downstairs. I felt rny hip pocket and found that the wallet was missing. went downstairs and found the outer door of my house open. went outside, blit could not see anyone.” Witness said that in the scullery he found a single-burner stove knocked on one side. He found another stove knocked i-ompletely over. He went the living room and found that his blue jacket had hecn laid the top of a chair. found two spent matches and two unspent mutches the landing and two matches on the hedroom Moor. Witness said that before going work in the morning Ite checked his cigarettes and found that there were 10 Woodbines missing from the drawer. Later the same day was shown, the |K)lice, the wallet which he had placed in his llannel trousers and which lie valued at approximately 7s, 6d. Witness stated that the stairs were difficult to negotiate and that there was a handrail only at the top. He said that he knew Mr. Chambers very well indeed. He imagined that he knew that he (witness) lived in the small cottage alone. There was no electric light his cottage. Real Burglar And Torch Mr. Sale naked witness: A real burglar would provide himself with torch, wouldn’t he?” Witnesa replied: 1 should think so.” He said that the person using the matches had obviously been fumbling with them and had spilt some of the unused ones. to be continued………..
Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press – Saturday 24 May 1952
