1914 : Henry Beer alias Pluckrose gets Six Months for Stealing

Source:  The Essex County Chronicle , 7,810 7g
Date:  29 May 1914
Place:  Leytonstone

ESSEX QUARTER SESSION.

YESTERDAY.
 

FIRST COURT .

BEFORE E. NORTH BUXTON, ESQ
(With whom sat G. L. Michell and J. Tabor, Esqrs.)

INGENIOUS TILL ROBBERY.

 

Henry Beer, 29, boot-clicker. was charged with stealing 13s. of Frank Henry Miller, at Leyton, on April 13. — Mr. C. E. Jones prosecuted; Mr. H. Warburton defended — Mr. Jones said the fraud alleged was exceedingly ingenious and carefully thought out. Prisoner was engaged by the prosecutor at the Green Man Inn, Leytonstone, as barman, and in consequence money being missed from the automatic registering tills policeman kept watch. The allegation was that persons came in, paid for a glass of beer with the exact money, and received change from the prisoner, who took it from the till. When the till was checked it was £3 6s. 2d. short. The till was closed and another watch was kept. The same people kept coming and going and receiving change, and in thirteen minutes there was shortage 13s., which was the subject of the charge — Prisoner, from the witness-box, gave total denial to the accusation. He admitted his name was Pluckrose. — The jury convicted, and he admitted a sentence of three months for stealing money at another public-house where he was employed. — Detective-Sergt. Hyder said prisoner had been fined £20 for having obtained this situation by false references. He was one of a gang of men who gained a living by victimising publicans. — Sentence of six months' hard labour was passed.

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