Gun makers Summoned: On Tuesday, at the Birmingham Police Court, Edward Anson, gun maker, carrying on business in Steelhouse Lane as E. Anson and Co., was summoned at the instance of the Guardians of the Birmingham Proof House for selling a Belgian rifle with his name on it and not having it marked with an English Proof House mark. … (continues) … A second case of similar character was then taken. The defendants being Messrs. James and Reynolds, dealers in sporting guns, 9 Leander Road, Thornton Heath London … Henry Edmund Carrad, manager of the Remington Typewriter Co. gave evidence as to purchasing the rifle, but cross examined by M. F. E. Smith (Pinsent and Co.) who defended, admitted that his statement that he wanted the rifle for South Africa was pure imagination. … …
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