Leighton Buzzard police
station and magistrate’s court c.2000 [Z1432/2/1/20/47]
Friday
21st December 1917: Three boys from Chapel Path, Leighton Buzzard
have been summoned for committing wilful damage to hay and boards belonging to
Henry George Brown, timber merchant of Mill Road. He had complained at the last
Court sitting that he found Horace Major (aged 16), Frank Kempster (aged 15)
and Alfred Mills (15) and others in his yard on the afternoon of Sunday 25th
November, throwing wood and hay about. However, as none of the boys attended
the hearing it had been adjourned. When asked why they had failed to appear but
had sent their mothers instead, Superintendent Matthews said he supposed the
boys were busy earning too much money. He now had witnesses - two boys who had
heard Major threaten to set fire to Mr. Brown’s stacks if he had to pay much
that morning. Major said he had been earning fourteen shillings a week but was
now out of work; Kempster had done four days’ work last week for which he was
paid ten shillings. Each of the boys were fined £1.
Source:
Leighton Buzzard Observer, 25th December 1917
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