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eveeping towards Dines. I reach- 
ed Dines first; he was lying on 
the ground: he said to me, “ My 
dear fellow, give me your hand, I 
am a dead man.” I asked if they 
had shot him ? he put his hand on 
his belly, said «« Yes,” faintly, and 
shook his head. I lifted him up, 
and Gurney, who had then got on 
his legs, helped me to hold him. I 
inquired how it happened: he said, 
that after he had been shot, he had 
fired both barrels, and thought 
he must have wounded some of 
them. It appeared that the whole 
charge of the gun fired at Dines, 
had entered the right side of his 
belly: he died the following day, 
about six in the evening.” 
A Coroner'sinquest'sat on Mon- 
day, the Jith, on the body of 
Dines, and no proof having been 
then obtained against any indivi- 
dual the verdict was—** Wilful 
murder by persons unknown.”"— 
On Monday evening some circum- 
stances of suspicion arose against 
a gang of notorious and desperate 
poachers at Biggleswade. War- 
rants were issued against them 
by Mr. Wilshere, the magistrate: 
before day-light the next morn- 
ing two were taken, and in the 
course of that day four others. 
It appears that the gang con- 
sisted of Edmund Chamberlain, 
Jobn Twelvetrees, Jelin Hopkins, 
William Albone, Thomas Jeffries, 
Joba Sutton, and John Humber- 
stone all of Biggleswade. That 
they set out from Biggleswade 
abont ten o’clock on Saturday 
night, to shoot pheasants at South- 
Wl (which is at the distance of 
about four miles), that two had 
gums, and the rest bludgeons; 
that they entered into an agree- 
ment to stand by each other, and 
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not to be taken; that they -had 
killed two pheasants before they 
were pursued. Chamberlain and 
the four next named, were taken 
on the 12th, and were on the 13th 
examined by Mr. Wilshere, and 
committed to Bedford gaol, to- 
gether with Henry Albone (the 
brother of William) who though 
not present at the time of the 
murder, is implicated ; Sutton 
and Humberstone are still at 
large. 
Edmund Chamberlain has ac- 
knowledged himself to be the man 
who fired at Dines. It appears 
from the account of Thomas Jef- 
fries, another of the gang, that 
upon Dines saying he would see 
them off the manor, Chamberlain 
snatched a stick from Sutton, an- 
other of them, with which he 
struck Gurney on the head, and 
knocked him down ; that he im- 
mediately afterwards threw down 
the stick, levelled his gun, and 
fired itat Dines. That Dines, af- 
ter having cried out that he was 
a dead man, sunk down on one 
knee, and fired both the barrels 
of his gun. He must have taken 
very steady aim, having wounded 
Twelvetrees, Hopkins, Jefferies, 
and William Albone; Hopkins 
was found to have received more 
than 100 shot in his back, spread- 
ing frem the neck to the Joins, — 
William Albone received part of 
the charge of the first barrel on 
his left shoulder, and part of the 
second on his right arm. Jeffries 
was shot in the right shoulder and 
arm, and one shot passed through 
his right ear. Twelvetrees re- 
ceived a few on his loins, and one 
on his right thumb; they are 
none of them materially wounded. 
The prisoners were conveyed 
