POACHING

Police Courts
The Newcastle Courant etc (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England),
Friday, February 2, 1877; Issue 10545.

POACHING.
Geo. Walton, otherwise Geo. Thompson, was charged with
poaching on the Rokeby estates on January 4th, A game
watcher, named Spence, discovered, on the morning in
question, about nine o'clock, footprints in the snow, and
afterwards came upon the defendant, who had two hares
in his pockets, and had with him a lurcher dog. Defend-
ant, who did not appear, was fined £1 and the costs. -John
Nicholson, a labourer, was then charged by a game watcher
named Wim. Calvert, with killing two rabbits on Sunday
the 31st December, near Gilmonby. On being seen, de-
fendant decamped, but he was afterwards identified. De-
fendant was fined £1 and the costs, which were paid.