QSR1918/4/5/1d

Statement of Accused Ernest Moulster -v- Messrs. A. R. Child & Co.

14th August 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

Borough of Luton to Wit Ernest Moulster stands Charged before the undersigned, one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the Borough of Luton, this 14th day of August in the year One thousand Nine Hundred and Eighteen for that he the said Ernest Moulster on the 8th day of August 1918, at the Borough of Luton, feloniously did break and enter No. 6 Williamson Street, and therein feloniously did steal a quantity of money and insurance and postage stamps value Fourteen shillings and one halfpenny the property of Messrs A. R. Child and Company. And the said Charged being read to the said Ernest Moulter and the Witnesses for the Prosecution being severally examined in his presence, the said Ernest Moulster is now addressed by me as follows: “Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so; by whatever you say will be taken down in Writing, and may be given in Evidence against you upon your Trial. And you are clearly to understand that you have nothing to hope from any Promise of Favour, and nothing to fear from any Threat, which may have been holden out to you to induce you to make any admission or confession of your guilt, but whatever you shall now say may be given in evidence against you upon your trial, notwithstanding such Promise or Threat”: Whereupon the said Ernest Moulster saith as follows: I have nothing to say. Rear of Document: House, Luton in the Borough aforesaid on the day and Taken before me at the Court year first above mentioned. And immediately after obeying the direction of the 18th Section of the Act Eleventh and Twelfth Victoria, Chapter Forty-Two, I, the said Justice of the Peace, did demand and require of the said Ernest Moulster whether he desired to call any Witness; and thereupon answer to such demand the said Ernest Moulster [neither] called or desired to call [any person or persons] as Witnesses. (signed) C. Dillingham

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Luton Williamson Street, breaking & entering, Messrs. Child & Co.