Reference
QSR1903/1/6/3
Title
Indictment - Alfred Cecil Morton
Date free text
8th January 1903
Production date
From: 1901 To: 1903
Scope and Content
The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their Oath present that Alfred Cecil Morton on the 8th day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and three unlawfully knowingly and designedly did falsely pretend to Elizabeth Hope that he was authorised to solicit and receive donations for the Free Breakfast Fund thereby meaning a fund which was then being raised by the Reverend Thomas Given-Wilson the Vicar of Plaistow London in aid of poor and starving persons and that he the said Alfred Cecil Morton was then authorised by the said Reverend Thomas Given-Wilson to collect moneys for the said fund and that he the said Alfred Cecil Morton was respectable and trustworthy person to whom donations to such fund might safely be entrusted by means of which said false pretence the said Alfred Cecil Morton did then unlawfully obtain from the said Elizabeth Hope a certain sum of money to wit the sum of sixpence with intent to defraud whereas in truth and in fact the said Alfred Cecil Morton was not then authorised to solicit and receive donations for the Free Breakfast Fund and was not then authorised by the said Reverend Thomas Given-Wilson to collect moneys for the said fund and that the said Alfred Cecil Morton was not then a respectable and trustworthy person to whom donations to such fund might safely be entrusted as he said Alfred Cecil Morton well knew at the time when he did so falsely pretend as aforesaid against the form of the statute in such case made and provided.
Plea: Not Guilty to whole indictment.
Verdict: Guilty sentence to 18 months 6 months to hard labour.
2nd Count
And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present that the said Alfred Cecil Morton afterwards to wit on the day aforesaid in the year aforesaid unlawfully knowingly and designedly did falsely pretend to one Samuel George Barber that he the said Alfred Cecil Morton was then authorised to solicit and received donations for Free Breakfast for poor children in London and that he was a respectable and trustworthy person to whom donations to such fund might safely be intrusted by means of which said false preferences the said Alfred Cecil Morton did then unlawfully obtain from the said Samuel George Barber a certain sum of money to wit the sum of sixpence with intent to defraud where as in truth and in fact the said Alfred Cecil Morton was not then authorised to solicit and receive donation for free Breakfast for poor children in London and was not then a respectable and trustworthy person to whom donations to such fund might safely be entrusted as he the said Alfred Cecil Morton well knew at the time when he did so falsely pretend as aforesaid against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided.
Plea: nothing entered.
Verdict: nothing entered.
3rd Count
And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present that the said Alfred Cecil Morton afterwards to wit on the day aforesaid in the year aforesaid unlawfully knowingly and designedly did falsely pretend to one Ernest Christopher Pinchbeck that he the said Alfred Cecil Morton was then authorised to solicit and received donations for the Free Breakfast fund thereby meaning a fund which was then being raised by the Reverend Thomas Given-Wilson the Vicar of Plaistow London in aid of poor and starving persons and that he said Alfred Cecil Morton was then authorised by the said Reverend Thomas Given-Morton to collect moneys for the said fund and that he the said Alfred Cecil Morton was then a respectable and trustworthy person to whom donations to such fund might safely be entrusted by means of which said false pretences the said Alfred Cecil Morton did then unlawfully obtain from the said Ernest Christopher Pinchbeck a certain sum of money to wit the sum of one penny halfpenny with intent to defraud whereas in truth and in fact the said Alfred Cecil Morton was not then authorised to solicit and receive donations for the Free Breakfast Fund and was not then authorised by the said Reverend Thomas Given-Wilson to collect moneys for the said fund and that the said Alfred Cecil Morton was not then a respectable and trustworthy person to whom donations to such fund might safely be entrusted as he the said Alfred Cecil Morton well knew at the time when he did so falsely pretend as aforesaid against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided.
4th Count
And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present that at the General Session of the Delivery of the Gaol of the County of Surry holden at Guildford and the seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one the said Alfred Cecil Morton was convicted on an indictable misdemeanour.
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