FMP has reports from four provincial newspapers of June 1938 relating to two Metropolitan policeman accused of breaking and entering at Sidcup, Kent. The two individuals, both now deceased, were Roland Smith, 36, and Berkley Weatherburn, 39, and both appeared at Bromley Court on 20/6/1938 charged with the theft of £4 8s 2d from a shop and the theft of 540 cigarettes from a tennis club. They were remanded for a week on £50 bail plus a Surety of £50 each.
These were hardly crimes of the century but the more serious because they were policemen and, for all I know, may have been the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
One of these men is a twig in my family tree but I have been unable to find any subsequent report in later newspapers on FMP, so do not know whether they were acquitted or convicted.
My library does not have access to Gales newspaper site and, as I do not know of another site, can anyone suggest one please?
merleyone
These were hardly crimes of the century but the more serious because they were policemen and, for all I know, may have been the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
One of these men is a twig in my family tree but I have been unable to find any subsequent report in later newspapers on FMP, so do not know whether they were acquitted or convicted.
My library does not have access to Gales newspaper site and, as I do not know of another site, can anyone suggest one please?
merleyone
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