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24 November 1928 Forty/Fifty Years Ago Gossip Print E-mail
Another example of how  mob-feeling can wreck  innocent lives is contained
in
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
 
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