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BKi SWOOP ON POACHERS Court proceedings follow “Combined Op's”


^ N intensive combined operation in which radio-quipped patrol cars manned by Lancashire and West Riding police officers are co-operating with gamekeepers on estates throughout


Lancashire and Rowland result^ in,,a series of prosecutions against poachers'at Bowlahd Magis­ trates’ Court, Grindleton, on Monday.


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number of guns; a box containing dead pheasants; a bag containing another pheasant and a hare.


In the crowded courtroom, near the witness box, stood a ’


RIFLE FITTED WITH


TELESCOPIC SIGHTS ^Target practi|:e” in a field


^ASE No. 1 concerned three young men two of whom had ^ rifles, one eaulpped with telescopic sights.


Fined £5 each were Alan Blrtwell, aged 23, architect’s


assistant, of 14 Trinity Street, Oswaldtwistle; Peter Cham- ley, aged 23, marine engineer, pf 302 Willows Lane, Accring­ ton; and Geoffrey Tattersall, aged 20, architect’s assistant, of 5 Sultan Street, Accrington.


They pleaded guilty to pur­


suing game without a licence, using a gun for taking game on a Sunday, killing game on a


Sunday and being suspected of coming from land after being. In search of game.- The two guns were confiscated.


A Joint summons alleging


the use of a gun for taking game on a Sunday was dis­ missed.


Prosecuting, Insp. E. J.


Dobbs, said the offences oc-, curred on the Bashall Eaves estate of Lady Worsley-


I Taylor. I At .6-50 a.m. on October 13th


! 'At 7-30 a.m. the gamekeeper met Insp. J. Abbot and P.c. Bennett of the Lancashire County Constabulary and told


i them what he had seen. Fifteen minutes later the


[ police saw the car standing by ' the roadside at Whltewell.


[Blrtwell was standing outside : the car holding in his hands a ;.22 rifle fitted With telescopic ’ sights.


i On the other side of the car I was Charnley, who also'held a 1.22 rifle. Tattersall was sitting jin the rear of the car. All I three were wearing rubber I boots which were covered with wet lime.


The car was standing oppo-


[Slte a field which had been newly-limed and which bore i three sets of footprints,


I .Tattersall and Blrtwell told the police they had been in the field looking for rabbits. Chamley I said: “ Tell them npwt.”


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1 Mr. Ricketts went Into the ! field and 300 yards away hp


' The officers took possession j of the two rlfles and rounds of I i ammunition. Both barrels had


recently been fired.


I found a still warm, freshly- ; killed hare.


Defending, Mr. F. P. Jackson


i of lAncrlngton, said that a Sunday morning excursion, although it started In an Inno­ cent way, finished with father j unfortunate results. ,


I Blrtwell and Chamley were both regular attenders at Blackburn Rifle , Club. Tatter-


I sail was merely an Interested spectator and was the driver of his father’s car in which the three of them rode.


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j Their Idea was to obtain I permission from a famer to ■ rid him of pests. They had j crossed the field with the In- i tentlon of asking at a distant farm for permission to shoot. They had seen game birds that morning and bad ignored


' them., Going across the fields i they realised they could not i get. to the farm and retraced i their steps. While In the field they had


a certain amount of target practice, shooting at stones and a post. They saw what they thought was a rabbit and took a pot shot at It. None of the three knew the difference between a rabbit and a hare. Mr. Jackson said one of the


guns was worth about £25. Jnsp. Dobbs: “ We have the


utmost sympathy with the defendants,' but they have pleaded guilty to the offences. The magistrates are under a mandatory obligation to con­ fiscate the rifles and ammuni- tloii.’’


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Mr. Ricketts, a gamekeeper, saw the three men driving


'.slowly tqwards Bash&ll Eaves on the Mltton-Whltewell road.


Men said they were shooting at blackbirds


r^ASE No. 2 concerned '""' men who; said they: been shooting blackbirds.


two had


They were Eric Bowden, of


Bank Gap House, and .John Thomas, of 10 ,Shore Lee, I both of Dlggle, near Oldham, i who were each fined £1, jplus costs.


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■They pleaded guilty to trespassing in pursuit of game.


i A gamekeeper on Tand owned by Col. R. G.’ Parker, of iBrowshoIme Hall, saw l two ’men near thedlge of a wood I off the Clltheroe - Whltewell road.


I Prosecuting, Mr. R. P. Lee [said one of them was seen to I Are a shot at pheasants flut­ tering about at the edge of the woo'd. Then both imen began to search the under­ growth.


' ■ When they saw, the game-


keeper they’: ran out of sight. iThey later reappeared In a ifleld and told him they had [been shooting blackbirds.


i Both the men denied having 'shot at pheasants, said Mr. Lee, and the gamekeeper took


I their names and addresses and 'took possession of the gun.


I When he searched the wood I the gamekeeppr found a freshly-killed pheasant.


[ W . L T organising for Council


DYING traditWn is to be revived by Hurst Green


Women’s liistltute [next June whfen it is proposedj to hold a gala day and fun fair.


■Ihe Feast of S.S, Peter and


Paul on June 29th h b for long been a day of special slgnlfl-


cance to Hurst Green. In the morning men of the


village have marcljed to St. Peter’s Church,, Stonyhurst, for the St. Peter’s Guild High M ^ . Dinner at a local hotel has followed and in the even­ ing a dance and a fair, with coPonut shies and romdabouts ha^e provided entertainment for everybody.


1'hls year howeyer, there


was a break with tradition; there was no fair. And since the closing of the Assembly Robms as- a village centre some years ago there has been no I dance.


'I’he gala was annruncbd by


Mrjs. M. Perry, president of the , W.f., at the annual, meeting yesterday week.


'jit Is essential; for the


women of the village to play an ever-increasing part in our coipmunlty life," she sald.|


“Conse'quently, the] Institute


hafe decided to nominate at least two candidates for the Parish Council elections in May.


' We will organise a gala


day on Saturday, June 28th, to coincide with Guild Day, but will Invite all organisations and all denominations In the parish to take part. [Tradition will be catered for in a village fun fair, If at all possible.” '


Mrs. Perry emphasised that


thb Institute did not Intend to detract In any way ironi the religious aspect of tJhe occa­ sion and consequently it was no; proposed to hold the gala on the actual feast pay.


SEVEN PHEASANTS IN A HAVERSACK


Pillion passenger fired shiots ^ASE No. 3 concerned two, nvm with seven pheasants


alleged to have been found in a haversack. Two Burnley men, Cyril Alderson, aged 36, a, laboirer. of


45 Fenwick Street, and Edward Glover, aged 22, a miner, of 24 Gresham Place, pleaded not guilty to Joint summc nses of killing game on Sunday, killing seven pheasants on a Sun­ day, and being suspected of coming from land after <J>elng In search of game.


j Alderson also pleaded! not


guilty to discharging a gun within 50ft. of the centre of the carriageway, an alleged offence which Glover denied aiding and abetting. .


Alderson pleaded not guilty


to killing game without a licence.-


Inspector E. J. Dobbs said


the alleged offences took place on September 29th, during the close season for game shooting.


I Mr. Ernest Robinson, of Top Lodge, Browsholme, a


gamekeeper on Lady Worsley- Taylor’s estate said that at about 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning I at Bashall Eaves he


.heard a motor-cycle stop. TWO SHOTS


The pillion passenger i Im­


mediately got off and fired two shots Into a field from the roadway, then went through the hedge and picked some-l-' thing up.


Mr. Robinson said he saw


some pheasants fly away at the same time.


1 He went towards the motor­ cycle, but it was started up and driven past -him. He. re­ cognised the two defendants as the two riding the' motor­ cycle.


^ ■ [ Alderson, who was on the


pillion, had a shotgun slung across his back !and a bag which seemed full.


tration number of the motor­ cycle to the police.


On the [Spot where the


motor-cycle stopped he found two 16-bore cartridge cases. They had been freshly-fired.'


INTERCEPTED P.c.Bannlster, of the Lanc^


shire Constabulary, who inter­ cepted the motor-cycle, said Glover had a 16-bore double- barrelled shotgun of German make. Both barrels had 're­ cently been fired. Glover also wore a cartridge belt contain­ ing live cartridge^


Alderson had a haversack


containing , seven freshly- killed pheasants. The con­ stable took possession of i the gun and the game.


He passed part of the regis­ .


Alderson told the court they


had permission to ; jlslt two farms, at Sabden andj Lancas­ ter for pest clearance.


He said, the pheasants were


killed at 6 a.m. at Sabden. They drove through \yhltewell ■but no tlrds were killed there.


He denied stopping at Bas­


hall. Eaves and going through the hedge.


SLIP OF PAPER He showed the magi strates a


slip of paper which gave them permission to shoot on the farm at Sabden.


The Sabden farm was next


to the Huntroyde Esta^ and It- was quite possible some phea­ sants had got through to the farm land. He admltte 1 shoot­ ing five of them on tpe farm­ land.


He had thrown two of the


cartridges on to the roiid While they were riding through Whltewell.


The other two pheasants he


shot on the other Slaldburn. "Itwas 'a tlon," he said.


side of empta-


of £6 and Glover £4. The magistrates made an order for the confiscation of the gun.


■Aldersgn was-lined a total The magistrates dismissed


two Joint summonses of killing game on a Sunday anq killing seven pheasants on a Sunday.


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