Cambridge Independent Press 7 Nov 1868: John Haggis spade stolen

TRUMPINGTON. - William Long, a labourer from Downham, was committed for trial for stealing a spade, the property of John Haggis, and a spade and pickaxe, the property of Chas. Frost, at Trumpington, on the 19th Oct., also a spade and foot-iron, the property of Thomas Covell, at Harston, on the 21st October. These tools were stolen from Coprolite Works in the aforenamed parishes, and as it transpired that prisoner had been twice previously convicted, the Bench refused to deal summarily with the case. Prisoner had disposed of the tools at Rayments, a marine store dealer in Barnwell, from whence they were recovered by p.c. Longstaff, and prisoner was subsequently apprehended at Ely.