QSR1918/4/3/6

Indictment to charge Joseph Baker - Habitual Criminal.

9th October 1918

From: 1907 To: 1918

THE PREVENTION OF CRIME ACT. 1908 (Edw.7, c. 59, Sect. 10, subs 4) THE KING against JOSEPH BAKER NOTICE by the Director of Public Prosecutions to the Prisoner Joseph Baker that it is intended to charge him in the Bill or Bills of Indictment to be preferred against him at the Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions to be holden at Bedford on the 9th day of October 1918 with being A HABITUAL CRIMINAL. BEDFORD SHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS 9th October 1918 THE PREVENTION OF CRIME ACT 1908 NOTICE TO THE PRISONER Take Notice that in the pursuance of section 10, subsection 4, of The Prevention of Crime Act, 1908, it is intended to insert in the Bill or Bills of Indictment to be preferred against you Joseph Baker at the Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions, to be holden at Bedford on the 9th day of October 1918 a charge under the said Act that you are A HABITUAL CRIMINAL and are leading persistently a dishonest and criminal life on the grounds: (1) That since attaining the age of sixteen years you have at least three times previously to your conviction of the crime charged in the said Bill or Bills of Indictment been convicted of a crime within the meaning of the said Act. (2) That having been discharged from Prison on the 7th day of July 1918, on the 4th day of September 1918 you committed the crime for which you are now awaiting your trial. (3) That to Sergeant H. Church of The Bedfordshire Constabulary at the Bedford County Police Station, on the 4th September 1918, you confessed to have committed two separate burglaries in addition to that charged against you and for which you are awaiting your Trial between the dates of your conviction last release from prison and your latest arrest. PARTICULARS of the three previous convictions above referred to are as follows, namely:- Date: 16.10.1912 Court of Conviction: Bedford Quarter Sessions Offence: Stealing Clothing Sentence: 9 Months Hard Labour Name in which convicted: Joseph Baker Date: 7.01.1914 Court of Conviction: Bedford Quarter Sessions Offence: House breaking Sentence: 18 Months Hard Labour Name in which convicted: Joseph Baker Date: 06.04.1916 Court of Conviction: Bedford Quarter Sessions Offence: Burglary (after previous conviction for felony) Sentence: 3 years penal servitude Name in which convicted: Joseph Baker AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that, in addition to the above previous convictions, evidence may be given of the following previous convictions against you, namely: - Date: 15.12.1907 Court of Conviction: Wellingborough Petty Sessions Offence: Stealing Clothing (4 charges) Sentence: 3 weeks, 3 weeks, 3 weeks and 3 weeks hard labour (consecutive) Name in which convicted: John Parker and James Brown Date: 28.08.1908 Court of Conviction: Caxton Petty Sessions Offence: Stealing watch and chain Sentence: 3 Months Hard Labour Name in which convicted: John Parker Date: 03.02.1910 Court of Conviction: Bedford Assizes Offence: Burglary and Larceny (2 cases) Sentence: 9 Months Hard Labour and 9 Months Hard Labour (concurrent) Name in which convicted: Joseph Baker Date: 03.01.1912 Court of Conviction: Bedford Quarter Sessions Offence: Stealing clothing Sentence: 6 Months Hard Labour Name in which convicted: Joseph Baker And also two summary convictions. Dated this 26th day of September 1918 (sd) Charles W. Mathews Director of Public Prosecutions Whitehall, London, S.W. To the above-named Prisoner Joseph Baker.

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Baker, Joseph,
Church, H,
Parker, John,
Brown, James,
Mathews, Charles W.

BEDFORD, Whitehall, Wellingborough, Caxton, Quarter Sessions, stealing, burglary, larceny, watch, chain