Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
28th June 1834
On Wednesday afternoon a little child who was riding on a wooden horse, and being drawn by the
servant along the pavement in Eton, narrowly escaped being crushed to death by falling into the street
just as some of Messrs. Ramsbottom and Co.'s drays were passing; before the servant could prevent the accident the wheel of one of the drays passed over the child, whereby its collar-bone and one arm
were severely fractured.
On Wednesday night between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, the hen-house of Mr.Robert Style, of
Riding Court Farm, near Datchet, was broken into. Hearing a noise, Mr. S. immediately got out of bed and
proceeded to the yard, when a fellow was observed making away from the premises at a rapid rate with a
basket on his shoulder. Taking a gun which he had ready charged, he, in his shirt, followed the thief some
distance, when levelling it at him with the intention of stopping his career, the gun unfortunately missed fire.
It, however had the effect of alarming the robber, who instantly dropped the basket, which was found to contain
eight geese. Mr. S. thus regained his property and the basket to boot.
A man named Skinner, whose appearance before the Magistrates is too frequent, was committed on Monday
last for three months on the treadmill at Reading, for being drunk and disorderly in the streets on the previous day.