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Recognizance: Nellie Norman & Harold Wilshire Case against Arthur Wallace Canderton

13th October 1920

From: 1920 To: 1921

Division of Luton County of Bedford to wit: Be remembered, that on the 18th day of October in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and twenty Nellie Norman of Limbury in the County, of Bedford and Harold Wilshire of Limbury in the said County, personally came before me, one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County, acting in and for the Division of Luton, and severally acknowledged to owe to our Sovereign Lord the King the sum of Ten Pounds each, of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied on their several Good and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, to the use of our said Lord the King, his Heirs and Successors, if they, the said above bounden several persons shall fail in the condition indorsed Taken and acknowledged the day and year first above mentioned, at the Court House, Luton, before me, (Signed) John Wright One of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. Rear of Document: The Condition of the within Recognizance is such, that whereas Arthur Wallace Canderton was this day charged before the said Justice of the Peace, for that he the said Arthur Wallace Canderton did on the 13th day of October in the year One thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty at Limbury in the County of Bedford unlawfully and feloniously steal take and carry away fourpence in coins of the money of Arthur Prudden. If therefore they the said Nellie Norman and Harold Wilshire shall appear at the next Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at the Shire Hall, Bedford, in and for the County of Bedford, and they give such evidence as is to them severally known, upon a Bill of Indictment to be then and there preferred against he said Arthur Wallace Canderton for the offence aforesaid, as well to the Jurors who shall there inquire of the said Offence, as also to the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Arthur Wallace Canderton if the said Bill shall be found a true Bill, then the said Recognizance to be void, as to such of the above bounden persons as shall perform the said Condition, or else to stand in full force and virtue. (signed) John Wright

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Norman, Nellie,
Wilshire, Harold,
Canderton, Arthur Wallace,
Wright, John,
Prudden, Arthur

BEDFORD, LUTON, LIMBURY, theft, stealing, money