| Notes: | The Bury and Norwich Post
Tuesday, 10 May 1864, Page 8
Capture of a Thief. - On Friday afternoon (the 29th ult.) Thomas Love, of New Buckenham, a pensioner who travels the country with a donkey and cart, under the pretence of dealing in marine stores, called at the Rampant Horse inn, at Diss Heywood, and was served with some beer. As soon as he had left the house, Mr. Robert Browne, the landlord, missed a tumbler from the table in his tap-room, and at once suspected Love. He therefore followed him, and on overtaking him Love emphatically declared his innocence, but Mr. Browne, on searching the cart, found the stolen property. He at once took Love back to the Rampant Horse, and sent for a policeman, who took Love into custody, and conveyed him before the Rev. C. R. Manning, who remanded him till Wednesday last. In his coat pocket was found a brass candlestick, which he said he had bought the same morning at Attleborough, but the police ascertained that it had been stolen the same morning from Winfarthing Fighting Cocks, at which place the prisoner called on his way from Buckenham to Diss. On Wednesday he was again brought up at Diss before the Rev. H. T. Frere and Dr. Curteis, when he pleaded guilty to both charges, and was sentenced to twenty-one days hard labour for each offence. |
