Cambridge Independent Press 31 May 1879: Damage to Pemberton fence

CAMBRIDGE DIVISION PETTY SESSIONS.

SATURDAY. Before I.H. Wilkinson, E.B. Foster, and J.O. Daintree, Esqs.

WILFUL DAMAGE

Charles Wright, of Fitzroy-street, Cambridge, was charged with wilfully injuring a fence, at Trumpington, the property of Mr. H.W. Pemberton, by pushing through the same, on May 9.

George Barker said: I work at the coprolite pits on Mr. Pemberton’s land. I remember the 9th of May. About one o’clock on that day I was walking up the field road, which comes through the plantation leading on to the Trumpington-road. I saw the defendant in Mr. Bland’s wheat-field. He ran across after an old hare, and put it up. I saw him come out of the plantation, go into the field, and then go back into the plantation. I next saw the defendant, whom I knew by sight, in a cart on the road.

Edward Lloyd, gamekeeper to Mr. H.W. Pemberton, of Trumpington, said: In consequence of what I was told on the 9th May, I examined the plantation fence against Mr. Bland’s wheat field. I found a gap in the fence. I asked the defendant his name. He would not tell it me at first, but afterwards said it was Charles Wright. The other man said his name was Wright. The defendant said he had been down after a hare, which he thought was dead. He said he saw the noticeboards. I estimate the damage at 3d.

The Magistrates inflicted a penalty of 6d. and costs, amounting in all to 18s. 3d.