Monday 1 September 2014

German Arrested At Biggleswade

North Bridge Street, Shefford, c.1910 [Z50/101/37]

1st September 1914, Biggleswade: A German musician named Erich Borchardt was fined £2 at a special police court held at Biggleswade Town Hall today. Borchardt had registered as an alien but admitted travelling outside the permitted five mile limit without permission. It appears he had left his motor cycle for repair at a shop in Shefford in July and had come from London to collect it. Borchardt’s wife paid the fine and they caught the train back to London.


Source: Beds Times 4/9/1914



Note: Borchardt was subsequently fined £20 with the alternative of two months imprisonment at Marlborough Street Police Court on Wednesday 2nd September for failing to notify his possession of a motor cycle.

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