25 January 1850 A previous offence was reported in the Coventry Standard Friday 25 January 1850 p.4 col.3: J. Welch, 13, Win. Hill, 14, and Henry Calchpole, 15, were charged with stealing a duck, the property of William Estcourt, of Spon-end. - Mrs. Estcourt stated that she kept a number of ducks in a shed at the back of her house, and they were turned out in the morning to go into the water at the bridge, and they returned of themselves at night; she saw seven go down to the water in the morning, and only six returned in the evening; she afterwards heard that Police- Constable Salmons had the duck in his possession; when she saw it she knew it to be the one she had lost, and could swear to its being her husband's property, both by the colour and a particular mark on its foot. - Salmons said he was on duty in Rood-lane yesterday, and saw the prisoners standing together, Catchpole having a bundle in his hand, and the moment they saw him they all ran away; he, however, captured Catchpole with the bundle, and on opening it be found two ducks; he told witness the ducks were not his, but that they belonged to Welch, whose father had sent him out to sell them; he afterwards found Welch and Hill hiding themselves in a pigstye, at the back of Taylor's, the pipe maker, in Barras-lane. - A young man, named Territt, claimed the other duck, and proved it to be his. - They were all three committed to take their trial at the assizes.