Coventry Evening Telegraph – Wednesday 30 May 1945 Birmingham Trip in Stolen Motor Lorry Receiving a telephone message from the Birmingham police that a lorry from Coventry had collided with a trolley-bus pole there, and they were detaining a youth who was in the lorry at the time, Detective Dickens […]
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Marylebone Mercury – Friday 23 December 1949 Shoplifting — ‘Wicked dishonesty’ Sentencing Bessie Studd, 48, housewife, of Lower Higham Road, Gravesend, Kent, to five months’ imprisonment for stealing a game, worth 3s. 3d., from an Oxford Street store, Mr. Geoffrey Raphael, the Marylebone magistrate, told her she was absolutely a […]