Theft from the Stocks Arms, Northowram [1869]

John Buckley, a slubber and Lawley Rosendale, a turner, both of Leeds were charged with stealing a ham value 18s. the property of William Crossley landlord of the Stocks Arms Inn, Northowram, who said there were 14 hams hung up in the passage, but the following morning he missed one of them. He then missed a copy of the Halifax Guardian of the previous Saturday from the tap-room. He could identify the ham by a portion of it being marked where the mice had eaten it.

PC Taylor later arrested the men in Haley Hill when he found them in possession of the ham wrapped in a copy of the Halifax Guardian.

Rosendale was discharged with a caution.

Buckley, against whom nothing was known, was committed for two months with hard labour