On This Day
On This Day, 19 September 1918
On 19, Sep 2018 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Evening Despatch
Thursday 19 September 1918
BELGIAN’S THEFT.
STOLE TOOLS FROM HIS EMPLOYERS AT BIRMINGHAM.
Ceasar Seeldrazen, aged 39, a Belgian shell turner, 74, Carlisle-road, was, at Birmingham to-day, fined £5, or 26 days’ imprisonment, for stealing tools and other articles to the value 12s., the property of his employers, the General Electric Company, Witton, between 1 April and 17 September.
Detective-sergeant Boulton found the tools at the prisoner’s rooms on Tuesday, and when spoken to about them prisoner admitted that they belonged to the firm and that he took them two months ago.
SOLDIER’S ALLEGED BIGAMY.
MILITARY MEDALLIST CHARGED AT BIRMINGHAM.
At Birmingham to-day, Thomas Flowers, aged 23, a sergeant in the Notts and Derby Regiment, was remanded on bail for a week on a charge of bigamy.
Detective-sergeant Ainger said accused went through a form of marriage with Emily Blackwell, 50, Cromwell-street, at St. Matthew’s Church, Great Western-street, Birmingham, on 30 August, his wife, whom he married in September, 1914, being then alive at Mansfield.
Flowers, added the detective, had been wounded four times and had won the Military Medal. He belonged to a respectable family at Mansfield.
D.C.M. AND M.M. RIBBONS.
LABOURER CHARGED WITH WEARING MILITARY DECORATIONS.
Henry Fuller, aged 23, labourer, of 39, Northbrook-street, was charged at Birmingham to-day with wearing the D.C.M. and M.M. ribbons and Mons Star, also four wounded stripes to which he was not entitled.
Police-constable Hollis stated that he saw prisoner in Dudley-road yesterday afternoon wearing the military decorations, and he asked him how he accounted for having them on. He replied that he was entitled to them-they had been sent to him and he should wear them.
He afterwards stated that he won the decorations while with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, but his Army discharge papers made no reference to them or to the Warwickshire Regiment.
Prisoner, who was stated to be rather strange in his manner at times, was remanded in custody till Wednesday, and in the meantime will be examined by a doctor.
