Game Trespass, 1901
After the Game.—
Frederick Coe and Albert King, shoe hands,
Desborough, were summoned for a game trespass, at Carlton, on Jan.
20.—
Defendants pleaded not guilty.
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P.C. Chapman stated that on Sunday, the 20th inst., he saw the two
defendants scuffling about after a rabbit in a plantation. When they
came on to the road witness searched the defendants, but found no game
or instruments for taking game on them. They had three dog[s], which ran
a rabbit across the road. The defendants' knees were dirty, as if they
had been kneeling at rabbit burrows.
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For the defence, Joseph Coe stated that they went to the plantation
to call their dogs out, and while there the policeman came up.
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Defendants, who are old offenders, were each fined 10s. and 3s.
costs.
Northampton Mercury,
Friday 01 February 1901
Note: Unclear as yet
whether the first defendant was named
Frederick or Joseph Coe