Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange EventsBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Legends -- England -- Yorkshire; Yorkshire (England) -- Miscellanea
On Saturday morning it was ascertained that the police had been on a
wrong scent, as Martin had proceeded to the north instead of to the
west; and about half-past nine o'clock that morning an express was
received stating that he had been arrested the previous evening near
Hexham. The following are the particulars of his flight and capture:
Martin left the Minster, as has been stated, a little after three
o'clock in the morning. He proceeded to Easingwold and got a pint of
ale; from thence to Thirsk, at which place he arrived at eleven o'clock;
from Thirsk he went to Northallerton, where he arrived about three
o'clock in the afternoon in a state of apparent fatigue. He remained
till evening with a brother in-law who resided there, and expressed
great anxiety to get on to Hexham to see a friend. At nine that evening
he left Northallerton in a coal cart, in which he travelled all night
till he arrived at Joft-hill pit, near West Auckland, on the Watling
Street road. The next morning he proceeded to Alensford, on the Derwent,
where he slept on the Tuesday evening. He left Alensford about eight
o'clock on the Wednesday morning, and stopped at the Riding Mill, where
he had a pint of ale; from thence he proceeded to Corbridge, where he
arrived about twelve o'clock, and had half-a-pint of ale; and then went
to Cadlaw Hill to his friend Mr. Kell, where he arrived about two the
same afternoon, being the same place where he sought refuge when he
escaped from the asylum at Gateshead. Martin remained there till eleven
o'clock on Friday morning, and during his stay he expressed a great
anxiety to see newspapers.
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