South Street, Leighton
Buzzard c.1900 [Z1432/2/1/34/1]
Monday
4th March 1918: Herbert Olden, a sixteen year old labourer
from Leighton Buzzard has been summoned to the Police Court for unlawfully
using a pistol while under the age of eighteen years. Police Constable Cheshire
saw the boy on the footpath in South Street on February 11th, apparently
showing something to another lad. As he approached he saw smoke and heard the
sound of a pistol being fired; Olden then put something into his pocket. When
P.C. Cheshire asked for the gun the boy gave it to him, claiming he had a
licence for it at home. When challenged over this he told the policeman the
licence had expired and said “I suppose I can do as I like with my own
property”. Police Superintendent Matthews said that Olden had never held a gun
licence, and could have been summoned for not having one. The Chairman of the
Bench spoke sharply to Olden for “telling a lot of lies” about the licence; he
was fined ten shillings and the gun was to be confiscated.
Source:
Leighton Buzzard Observer, 5th March 1918
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