Village History
ALLEGED THEFT OF A FOWL.
At a special police court held at Buckingham on Wednesday, before Thomas Boyne ‘ Esq.. (leery, Bate*, a tramp, of no fixed abode, wasbrought up in custody charged with stealing one fowl, valued at 211.. the property of George Lawrence,at Steeple Claydon, on the 13th Juno. George Lawrence said he was the landlord of the Phiguix inn at Steeple Claydon. He kept some crossbred fowls, and among them be had one which had met with an accident at some time, and had lost its eye. It also had one wing clipped. He bathed the injured eye of the fowl on the morning of the 13th about 8 o’clock when he fed the other fowls. From something that was said to him he went to see the fowls in the afternoon of the same day and found that the one with the bad eye was missing. The head and wings of the fowl (produced) he recognised as those of the injured fowl. He saw the prisoner in the taproom of his house about 9 o’clock in the morning and he left him there. Ile valued the fowl at?s.. _ _ . Alice Rolls, daughter of P.s. Rolls, said she lived at Steeple Claydon. She was at home about 4.30 on the 13th inst. and noticed a fire down the Buckingham-road. She went down the road, and found the hedge on fire, and prisoner shaking it up and trying to put it out. She went back and told her father and returned with him to the spot, and found the prisoner bad gone. to be continued……...
Buckingham express Saturday 17 June 1899
