Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1921/4/5/3a to 3f
  • Title
    Rex v Alfred Cooper (alias Bent)
  • Date free text
    20th September 1921
  • Production date
    From: 1921 To: 1921
  • Scope and Content
    a) A letter from Borough of Luton to W W Marks, Clerk of the County Council, Shire Hall Bedford, dated 20th September 1921 My Dear Sir, The Borough Bench on 23rd July convicted Alfred Bent for breaking & entering & stealing, sent him to the next Quarter Sessions for commitment to Borstal. I am instructing Counsel to appear at the Quarter Sessions in support of the Justices recommendations W Smith Town Clerk b) A letter from Borough of Luton to W W Marks, Clerk of the County Council, Shire Hall Bedford, dated 1st October 1921 Dear Sir, re Alferd Cooper (alias Bent) Borstal Case. As requested I beg to enclose justices Report & birth certificate herein. Signed William Austin, Clerk to the Justices c) A letter from Borough of Luton to W W Marks, Clerk of the County Council, Shire Hall Bedford, dated 4th October 1921 Dear Sir, Rex v. Alfred Cooper(alias Bent) Adverting to my letter of 20th September last, the Clerk to he Justices has witten " on searing my records for his Birth Certificate, I find his proper name is Cooper, & that he is the illegitimate child of Sarah Cooper of Someries Farm Cottages, Stopsley nr Luton. I might add the the Police have verified this" William Smith, Town Clerk d) A letter from Borough of Luton to W W Marks, Clerk of the County Council, Shire Hall Bedford, dated 6th October 1921 Dear Sir, re Alfred Cooper - Borstal Case. In reply to your letter of 3rd inst, I now enclose copy of convictions herein William Austin, Clark to the Justices e) Copy of Birth Certificale f (i) (ii) (iii) Report of the Justices of the Peace acting in & for the Borough of Luton on Alfred Bent who was covicted of shop-breaking by the said Justices of the Peace in Petty Sessions assembledon 6th July 1921 & committed by the said Justices at the General Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Bedford to be dealt with under the Borstal System. William Austin, Clerk to the Justices of the Borough of Luton.
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