Notes for: George Barker
Cambridge Chronicle 14 Sep 1872:
COWARDLY ASSAULT WITH A FORK. - Cornelius Careless, fossil digger, Trumpington, was charged with assaulting George Barker, at that place, on the 31st ult. - Defendant was beating his wife (Barker’s sister) and threatened to kill her. - Complainant went up and said he should not do that whilst he (complainant) was there. Defendant then struck him, and went and fetched a dung fork, with which he struck Barker on the shoulder, and one of the tines pierced the corner of his eye. - The Bench fined defendant £2 and costs, £1. 0s 6d., or two months.
Cambridge Chronicle 10 Feb 1877:
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.
Cambridge Independent Press 31 May 1879:
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.