Horrid deed!!! Whereas some wicked and ill-disposed person did, in the night of the 14th, or early in the morning of the 15th of Nov. instant, cut the sinew of a cow, above the hough, the property of John Cocks, pitman, when grazing in a field at Twizell, near Chester-le-Street, ... a reward of twenty guineas is hereby offered, ... by ... John Martindale, of the Flatts, near Chester-le-street aforesaid

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by John Martindale