He'd have been a suspect in my books,April.
Whose to say he wasn't even though, as I said, it simply WASN'T his style, PLUS I really can't see him walking 12 odd miles from Coggeshall to D'arcy and he could N EVER have been described as SCRUFFY. If he'd done it, he wouldn't have hidden it. He'd have driven straight up to the door. Also to bear in mind is that he lived with his wife, daughter and two adult sons, and generally speaking, what is harvest time for one farmer is harvest time for another.