Dealer Remanded: Charged with Stealing 37 Jumpers: Ernest Pinsent (40), a general dealer of Archdeacon Lane, was remanded for a week by Leicester magistrates today charged with sealing 37 women’s jumpers, worth £9 5s, from a L.N.E.R. dray. He was alternatively charged with receiving the goods, knowing them to be stolen. The goods were said by Det-Sergt. Taylor, to have been recovered from Pinsent’s house. They were taken from the dray while it stood in the street. Application for a remand was made by the police on the ground that inquiries had to be made. Bail was allowed.
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GRO0272 Tiverton: Ernest “Pinsent”: 1889 – 1966