On This Day, 8 May 1917

Birmingham Mail

Tuesday 8 May 1917

SIX MONTHS FOR A SIDE OF BACON.

BIRMINGHAM WAREHOUSEMAN’S THEFT.

Henry Everex (46), warehouseman, 21, Guest Street, Hockley, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by the magistrate in the Second Court of Birmingham Police to-day, for stealing a side of bacon, weighing 32lb., belonging to the Birmingham Industrial Cooperative Society, High Street, Birmingham. Prisoner worked for a provision merchant in Scotland Passage, and the bacon was taken from a lorry near his employer’s premises, opposite the Co-operative Society’s side entrance. Detective Rawle found at prisoner’s house boots and socks to considerable value also belonging to the Co-operative Society. Prisoner had been previously convicted, and the magistrates said the thefts had evidently been going on for some time. He would be given the maximum sentence they had power to pass.