Cambridge Chronicle 10 Feb 1877: Trespass on Bland farm

PETTY SESSIONS.

CAMBRIDGE DIVISION, Feb. 8.

(Before I.H. Wilkinson, T.J. Ficklin, and B.H. Wortham, Esqs.)

TRUMPINGTON. — William Bailey, 34, labourer, Wellington-street, Cambridge, was charged with being on land in the occupation of Mr. Bland, in search of game, at Trumpington, on the 25th January. — Mr. POLAND ADCOCK for defendant. — Charles Cawley said he saw defendant on Trumpington-road on the above day. He had a gun with him. It was about half-past three in the afternoon. Defendant got over the hedge, went through the plantation and down the field about three chains. He pointed his gun at something, the gun missed fire. He did not see any game. Witness said he knew Mr. Bland’s farm, and he believed the field defendant was in to be one of the farm. He fetched Mr. Clark, the gamekeeper, who asked defendant what brought him into the field, and he said that he had not been in the field. He then asked him what he had done with the gun that witness saw him with, and defendant said he had not had a gun; but Clark looked in his pockets and found one. — Clark corroborated Cawley’s evidence. — Defendant was fined 10s., and costs 18s. 6d. — Allowed a week to pay.