Money Stolen from House

From: Guard room occurrence book: 19 Aug 1901 ...

Description of man who stole money from a house

Date of creation

2nd August 1902

Reference number

HPF/B/98/083/3

People involved in incident

Mr Courtenay (Victim), 95 Gladstone Road, Watford

Transcript

From: Supt. Wood Stolen from the house of Mr Courtenay, 95 Gladstone Road, Watford about 12 noon on 1^st inst., 1 sovereign, 2 half crowns, and 9 shillings, by a man of the following description who went there for lodgings and represented that he was employed at Lipton’s provision merchants, Watford (false): age 25, 5ft 5, complexion sallow, thin face, hair light brown, clean shaven, dress black coat and vest, dark brown trousers, dark cap, grey or white flannel cricket shirt, dark tie. Please cause enquiries to be made.