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Bag of Groceries Stolen from Boy
From: Guard room occurrence book: 19 Aug 1901 ...Young boy tricked into handing over bag of groceries to strange man
Date of creation
22nd December 1901Reference number
HPF/B/98/038/6People involved in incident
Frederick Hinstrage (Victim), HitchinTranscript
From: D. C. C. To: All Stations Stolen last night around 9 pm from the persons of Frederick Hinstrage of age 8 years of Hitchin a course [coarse] hand bag containing the following grocery: ½ lb tea, ½ lb butter 2 lb moist sugar 1 lb Quaker Oats, 1 lb rice, & some peas, valued together 1s 11d. The boy was asked to give an address of a person in the neighbourhood by a strange man. The man asked the boy to take a note to the address given. The boy did so and the man held the grocery and on the boy’s return he had gone taking the grocery with him. The grocery wrapper had the name of W. B. Moss & Son, Grocers, Hitchin. Description of man 18 to 20 years, wearing a blue overcoat and a hard felt hat, probably a tramp and may be found in common Lodging Houses. If found and the wrapper on grocery traced to his possession arrest and wire…Towns and villages
Hitchin (157)
Type of incident
Theft (1937)