Some Costly Rabbits at Barmboro’

John Matthews, Collier, Conisborough, was charged under the poaching prevention act for an offence committed at Barmborough on 15 January.

PC Clark said that at 3 PM on the date in question he was on duty in Marr road in the parish of Barmborough, when he saw the defendant coming along the road with something on his shoulders. When he got a little nearer he saw it was a pillowcase with something in. He stopped the man and asked him what he got in the bag, and he said he had got three rabbits.

The officer asked him when he had got them from, and at first he would not tell him. He then said he had bought them from a man on the road, and he had paid, three shillings for them. He afterwards said he had got them from a keeper at Cusworth who was rabbiting.

The officer took the bag from him, and said he should report him.

Find 40 shillings and costs.