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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 646

Crime and Punishment Crimes Poaching 1821 entire letter from Exeter to Bicton, the letter being from a witness to the arrest of a poacher in which the writer suggests that a search of the suspect´s house will yield more evidence of his guilt (the accused man was caught with three pheasants and subsequently transported to New South Wales for seven years); 1822 entire letter written by a Scottish nobleman in Naples to a friend in Paris, the letter refers to the case of an infamous poacher from Ayrshire who, together with others, had been involved in a gunfight with gamekeepers (the convict, John Walker, was found guilty as the gang leader and sentenced to transportation for life in New South Wales); interestingly written-up with much detail Estimate £ 200-250

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