| Description | Letter from George Sanger vicar of Carlton in Cleveland to the Justices complaining that he had been arrested on suspicion of arson and held for 14 days. He is suffering, and probably will suffer all his life, from sleeping in the damp cell at Stokesley. Private letters had been retained by the police, and Chief Constable Hill had written to Sanger's relatives in Canada with intent to make mischief. The case against him for burning the church was based on "village gossip, public spite and police credulity" |