| Notes: | Huntingdon, Bedford and Peterbro’ Gazette
Saturday, June 2, 1832, Page 3
FIRES. - . . . . . Early in the morning of Wednesday se’nnight, a most dreadful fire took place at Winfarthing Lodge, occupied by Mr. Doggett. It began at the neat-house, and from thence communicated to and consumed all the outbuildings, except the stable, two large barns, bullock sheds, and piggery, with about twenty coombs of wheat, and forty coombs of oats. Seven weanling calves a cow, and some two-year olds, perished in the flames. It is supposed to have been the act of an incendiary. Both buildings and stock are insured. The engine from Diss attended, but to little purpose, for almost as soon as it arrived at the spot a new India rubber pipe was so much injured by some malicious person as to become useless. The buildings were the property of the Earl of Albemarle, whose kindness to the poor of that parish during the last winter, as on previous years, in supplying them with coals, would, we should have thought, have secured to him the protection rather than the destruction of his property. On the next evening, C. Green, William Ebbum, and R. Hubbard, were taken up on suspicion of the above atrocious act; the last named man made some very important discoveries, particularly of a long series of sheep stealing in the neighbourhood. Twenty-one cases, two only of which were gone into, upon which F. Mollett and R. Dixon, labourers, both of Winfarthing, were apprehended and committed to Norwich Castle. The three former were remanded for further examination. |
