Escort John Pettit To Prison

PC Milton attended the Petty Sessions at Much Hadham and escorted a John Pettit to St Albans Prison by train.

(Published in Truth on Wednesday 24 October 1906 – Much Hadham Petty Sessions. Before Messrs. F. H. Norman, H. Bacon, and T. W. Nott. John Pettit, labourer, charged with stealing 39 lb. of engine coal, value sixpence. He took the coal from a field where a heap had been placed for use in a steam cultivator. He pleaded that he had only been able to get occasional work, that he had a large family, and that this was his first appearance before the magistrates. After remarking that they recognised that this was his first and that he had hither been a respectable man, the Bench committed him to prison for 14 days, and added that it was a light sentence. Ed.)