Transcription of the Article from the Liverpool Mercury, Friday 15 February 1839 REWARDS TO POLICE-OFFICERS At the Police-office, on Friday last, a publican by the name of George Upton was summoned before the Magistrates on an information, charging him with having, at eleven o’clock on the night of the 14th […]
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Market Rasen Weekly Mail – Saturday 06 March 1875 LINCOLNSHIRE LENT ASSIZES. The Commission for holding these Assizes will be opened on Thursday, the 11th instant. The following is a calendar of the prisoners awaiting their trial: William Kirkby, 18, farm servant, for committing an unnatural offence, at Appleby, on […]
Hendon & Finchley Times – Saturday 29 April 1882 EDGWARE PETTY SESSIONS. APRIL 26, 1882. Before A. R. Johnstone, Esq. (in the chair), E. F. Noel, and W. A. Tooke, Esq. ALLEGED FRAUD. — John George Murray, of Roe-green, Kingsbury, was charged on a warrant with uttering a false cheque […]
Globe – Thursday 27 September 1883 front The Salvation Army Nuisance At Accrington Police-court yesterday, six members of the Salvation Army, named George Hill, Ellen Williams, Phoebe Kiley, Leonard Halsall, Alfred Farmer, and Henry Bradshaw, were summoned for assaulting Joseph Edmundson, cab proprietor, on the 17th inst. The evidence showed […]
Morning Post – Wednesday 20 December 1905 [Stanley Gardner, a rogue stockbroker, was charged with obtaining money by false pretences in a high-profile fraud case. Victims across the UK lost hundreds of pounds in fake share schemes. #OnThisDay #History #TrueCrime] Stanley Gardner, 35, described as an outside stock and share […]