Village History
IN WHICH HE RAN AND THE OUTLINE OF HIS FACE.
She knew of nobody else who ran the way in which he did. Asked if she could have been mistaken, she replied : I might ; but I’ra not.” Mrs. Myfanwy Carter, mother of the previous witness, said that an hour and a half after she went to bed she was awakened by her daughter. She watched through the open window while her husband went to get dressed. Witness saw accused at the rear of the vehicle. He ran towards the policeman’s house. Witness said she had known John Gascoigne ** since was little kid.” She shouted out his name loud enough for him hear. Replying to Mr. James, witness said that when her daughter came into their room she said “ Dad, there’s someone after your petrol.’’ Would Not Believe Him Mr. Janies : If I could prove accused wasn’t the man, what would you say?— afraid I would not believe you. It was difficult to recognise him wasn’t it ? —lt was a moonlight night and we were only twenty yards away from him. Jack Carter, a motor driver employed by the Bucks Agricultural Executive Committee, said that he drove a Fordson van which he left at the front of his house when he had finished his work. On Oct. 31st he put five gallons of petrol into the tank which was previously empty. When returned from his work on the Saturday, estimated that there was about gallons of petrol there. When left the vehicle outside his house at 1 p.m, the cap was on the petrol lank ami everything appeared to in order.
BUCKINGHAM Advertiser amd free press Saturday 29 November 1952
