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THE LATE POACHING AFFRAY. - Joseph
Stratton was brought up in custody, charged with being
concerned in a poaching affray, on the grounds of the late Sir Thomas
Seabright, in November, 1863, when a murderous attack
was made upon a keeper named Burgess.
It will be remembered that in March, 1864, four prisoners, named Levi
Welch, George Bone,
Wm. Stevens, and Thomas
Potton, were convicted at the Beds. Assizes for this
offence, and that this man (the prisoner), who had taken the most
prominent part in the attack upon the keeper, was not to be found,
he having absconded. The evidence of Burgess
was again taken, as also was that of another keeper named Hawes,
both men positively swearing to the prisoner. He was committed to
take his trial at the Assizes. The man was apprehended by
Police-sergeant Neville at St
Albans on Tuesday, the 28th ult. |
Bedfordshire Times 21st March
1865
The Bedford Prison Register records
that he was 27 years old, and had been in St Albans prison 18
times, and Hertford prison once. He was sentenced to 5 years penal
Servitude and transferred to Leicester County Goal
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