QSR1918/4/5/5

Victor Edward Baxter - Statement of Accused. Breaking and Entering Messrs. A. R. Childs & Co.

14th August 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

Borough of Luton to Wit Victor Edward Baxter 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 Victor Edward Baxter 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 half-penny the property of Messers A. R. Child and Company. And the said Charge being read to the said Victor Edward Baxter and the Witnesses for the Prosecution being severally examined in his presence, the said Victor Edward Baxter 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; but 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 Victor Edward Baxter saith as follows "I have nothing to say" Rear of Document: Taken before me at the Court House, Luton in the Borough aforesaid on the day 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 Victor Edward Baxter whether he desired to call any Witness: and thereupon in answer to such demand the said Victor Edward Baxter [neither] called or desired to call [any person or persons] as Witnesses. Signed: C. Dillingham Seal of Luton Magistrates Court

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Baxter, Victor Edward,
Dillingham, C

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