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SOLDIER'S BAD RECORD.
WOULD NOT MIND GOING BACK TO FRANCE.
Anthony Castor, a private soldier recently stationed at Thornton [near Great Crosby, Lancashire/Merseyside], came before the West Derby Hundred Court of Quarter Sessions at Islington on Tuesday, charged with various robberies. He pleaded guilty to the indictments. The specific charges set out against prisoner were having stolen £22 in Treasury Notes, a stamp book and postage stamps, the property of Adolphus Henry Rice and others, at Thornton on the 2nd November, 1916.
It was stated that prisoner, having first visited the officers' quarters, turned his attention to the non-commissioned officers, and purloined from them. When arrested at Crosby on November 15th and accused of having robbed the quartermaster, among others, he replied, "I am glad it was the quartermaster." Why he should have any special grudge against that officer, said Mr. D'Arcy, prosecuting counsel, was not known. Prisoner also told the police, "It's all right; I spent the money in gambling, and had a good time."
Prisoner, although only twenty years of age, had had a very adventurous record both in the Army and in civil life. He had had three charges against him for military offences, breaking out of camp, and so forth. In 1909 he was sent to an Industrial School, and in subsequent years he got into trouble in various ways. Finally he got special leave to join the Army, and that had failed to keep him straight.
Prisoner said the trouble was that he had had no pay for some time. He would not mind going to France again if the Court could see their way.
The Court could not see their way to return prisoner to the Army. They sentenced him to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
(The Bootle Times, 19 January 1917)
SOLDIER'S BAD RECORD.
WOULD NOT MIND GOING BACK TO FRANCE.
Anthony Castor, a private soldier recently stationed at Thornton [near Great Crosby, Lancashire/Merseyside], came before the West Derby Hundred Court of Quarter Sessions at Islington on Tuesday, charged with various robberies. He pleaded guilty to the indictments. The specific charges set out against prisoner were having stolen £22 in Treasury Notes, a stamp book and postage stamps, the property of Adolphus Henry Rice and others, at Thornton on the 2nd November, 1916.
It was stated that prisoner, having first visited the officers' quarters, turned his attention to the non-commissioned officers, and purloined from them. When arrested at Crosby on November 15th and accused of having robbed the quartermaster, among others, he replied, "I am glad it was the quartermaster." Why he should have any special grudge against that officer, said Mr. D'Arcy, prosecuting counsel, was not known. Prisoner also told the police, "It's all right; I spent the money in gambling, and had a good time."
Prisoner, although only twenty years of age, had had a very adventurous record both in the Army and in civil life. He had had three charges against him for military offences, breaking out of camp, and so forth. In 1909 he was sent to an Industrial School, and in subsequent years he got into trouble in various ways. Finally he got special leave to join the Army, and that had failed to keep him straight.
Prisoner said the trouble was that he had had no pay for some time. He would not mind going to France again if the Court could see their way.
The Court could not see their way to return prisoner to the Army. They sentenced him to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
(The Bootle Times, 19 January 1917)