Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
3rd May 1834
During the night of Tuesday last, some miscreant entered the premises of Mr. Cooper Elton, butcher, at Denham, Bucks
took a knife from his slaughter house, and went to the stable and stabbed a horse of the value of at least �20. The animal
was found dead in the morning, and nothing has as yet been elicted, to ascertain who the wretch was that committed the diabolical act.