Village History
FROM STEEPLE CLAYDON VEHICLE
After returning from dance, a Steeple Oaydoo girl saw a young man come down the rand fin the moonlight carrying can. Her subsequent suspicions led to her awakening her parents. At Buckingham Magistrates* Court on Saturday, Steeple Claydon young man, John Gascoigne (19). 29, Buckingham Koad, appeared on charge of larceny of petrol from a vehicle which her father had parked outside his house. Accused, who pleaded not guilty, was defended by Mr. Cadvan James (Messrs. wood and James). After The Dance The first witness was Joyce Carter, a fifteen-years-old factory worker residing 37, Buckingham Road, Steeple Claydon. She said that at 12.30 a.m. on November 2nd, she returned home from a dance at Steeple Claydon and went straight to her bedroom. It was a moonlight night and when she looked out of the window, she saw man, whom she identified as the accused, coming down the road. He came to the gate of witness’s house and went hack again, lie looked up the road and came back the gate carrying can. She saw him squat down by the rear of the van which her father drove and which was at the front of the house. She woke up her parents. Her father opened his window and witness opened her window and saw accused get up from the rear of the van and run in the direction of his own house, carrying the can. Witness said that she had known John Gascoigne all his life. He was wearing a brown jacket. She heard her mother shout after him ** that’s John Gascoigne.” The Way He Ran Replying to the solicitor for the defence, witness said that she recognised accused by the way
BUCKINGHAM Advertiser amd free press Saturday 29 November 1952
