Theft of Boots at Handsworth

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Date:1895

Description:A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 5th January 1895. This gives details of a case heard at the Staffordshire Sessions in which Ernest Hems,aged 14, was accused of stealing a pair of boots from Frederick Spittle, a boot dealer in Hunters Road.

Taken from the G.H. Osborne Newscuttings collection.

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Hunters Road Handsworth Crime & Punishment 1837 - 1900 (Victorian Period)

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Image courtesy of: Birmingham Central Library

Donor ref:LF 91.3 G.H. OSborne Collection (15/5756)

Source: Local Studies & History Department , Birmingham Central Library

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