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the following occurrence of some forty or fifty years ago when gossip
fastened its talons on a certain person, with dire and painful
consequences.
It appears that a stranger to the ditrict had been drinking in the Three
Tuns Inn, Cleator, with a Cleator Moor baker who followed the stranger out
of
the house. The stranger was not seen again and the public concluded that
the
baker killed him for his money and disposed of the body in an oven at his
establishment.
Gradually the business was brought down from wealth to poverty because of
the particularly vile rumours, and the baker subsequently passed away after
being completely broken in spirit and outlook.
In the passing of time a skeleton of a man was found down an old pit shaft
of the Jacktrees Mining Company, and, at the inquest, a woman was able to
identify the remains as those of a relative by shreds of clothing and
oddments
which had been in the pockets. The man, it was decided, had fallen down the
shaft. He was the person generally supposed to have been the victim of the
baker