Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Reporter 22 Jun 1888: Thefts from Clement Borissow

William Brown alias Arthur Case, bricklayer’s labourer, of Norwich, were charged on remand with stealing a Belgian hare and a tame fowl, value 3s. 6d., belonging to Clement Louis Borrissow, Trumpington, on the 1st inst.

The prisoner was found skinning the hare on Midsummer Common early on the morning on the day named, and some feathers were found under his knees as he was kneeling down. There were three other men with him at the time. The fowl was found beside a coat in a garden in Walnut Tree Lane. The prisoner was identified as a person who went into a public-house at Trumpington on the night preceding the morning upon which the things were missed, and a coat was taken out of some stables in the village and the owner now swore to it.

The prisoner was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour.