QSR1918/2/2/4a

Conviction - Edward Clement Coleman

25th January 1918

From: 1917 To: 1918

IN THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD Petty Sessional Division of Ampthill Before the Court of Summary Jurisdiction sitting at the County Court Hall in Ampthill in the said County (being a Petty Sessional Court) The 25th day of January 1918 Edward Clement Coleman Of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, Grocer (hereinafter called the Defendant) is this day convicted before this Court for that he on the 2nd day of November 1917 at Ampthill within the County aforesaid by the hands of Donald Kitchener his Servant and Agent did unlawfully sell to the prejudice of one Henry James the Purchaser a certain article of Food to wit sausages which was adulterated with 0.238 per cent of Boron Trioxide (B2 O3) equal to 29.4 grains per pound of Boric Acid (H3 BO3) and was not of the nature substance and quality demanded by the Purchaser Contrary to Section 6 of the Food and Drugs Act 1875. AND it is adjudged that the defendant for his said offence do forfeit and pay the sum of Two pounds and do also pay the sum of Twenty-eight pounds two shillings and sixpence for costs forthwith. And in default of payment it is adjudged that the sums due under this adjudication be levied by distress and sale of Defendant’s goods and in default of sufficient distress that the Defendant be imprisoned in His Majesty’s Prison at Bedford in the said County for the space of Three Calendar Months unless the said sums be sooner paid. (signed) Edward J. Jekyll & Wallace Percy Gordon Justices of the Peace for the county of Bedford. Conviction

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Coleman, Edward Clement,
Kitchener, Donald,
Jekyll, Edward J.,
Gordon, Wallace Percy,
James, Henry

food & drink industry, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD