Night Poaching

DISTRICT POLICE NEWS
The Derby Mercury (Derby, England),
Wednesday, November 7, 1860; Issue 6712.

Nov. 3
[Before R. W. M. NESFIELD, and W. LONGSDON, Esqrs.]
Night Poaching.- Two young men from Sheffield, call-
ing themselves John Marshall and Thomas Atherton, where
charged by Mr. Wilson, head keeper at Chatsworth, with
poaching that morning at 1 o 'clock ; the keepers found about
300 yards of netting and stakes, and on the capture of these
men by the keepers they were attacked by a powerful lurcher
dog ; this, however, the keepers killed in self-defence, and took
the prisoners to the Bakewell lock-up at 3 a.m. - They were
committed for three months each to hard labour, and ordered
to find the usual sureties at the expiration of their imprison-
ment.