1889

A Batch of Orchard Looters at Llandough

… four … boys … appeared in answer to the charge of breaking into the orchard of Great House Farm, on Sunday morning, and [taking] therefrom a number of apples, the property of John Williams … P.C. Herbert Evans said … with the assistance of Mr John Williams, junior, caught three of the offenders … The boys got into the orchard over the hedge from the railway … John Williams, junior, corroborated the evidence of the constable, and added that about half the apples in his father’s orchard had been [taken].