Maurice Henry Scutts ca 1897-ca 1947

[Gloucester Citizen Tue 14 Jun 1904 Swindon Police Court. Monday - Before his Worship the Mayor (Ald. James Hinton) in the chair, Ald. W. Reynolds, Mr. F. F. Goddard, and Mr. Ward. Morris Henry Scutts (aged 6) and Walter Thomas Curtis (aged 9) of Swindon, were charged with stealing 6d. from Albert Jennings (aged 7) at Swindon. There was also charge of stealing 11d. from a boynamed Frank Wilmot Terry (aged 8). Curtis, who had been previously brought before the Court, admitted taking the money, and the Mayor stated that he must have three strokes with the birch for each offence, six strokes all. Scutts being only six years of age, was discharged.] [Western Daily Press, Bristol, Wednesday 07 December 1927. Petty Thefts. Terms imprisonment were imposed upon a number of Swindon men who, was stated, had been engaged in a number of cases of larceny. Reginald James Harris (32), a blacksmith, was sentenced to three months hard labour on each of two indictments, one for stealing cake, and the other for stealing fowls. Henry Skutts (30) was sentenced to nine months imprisonment in connection with the two same offences and a third offence on a different day; and Harry Victor Smith was sentenced to six months imprisonment on each of the charges with which he was charged with Henry Skutts. Charles Joseph Skutts (32) was sentenced to six months imprisonment for stealing a bicycle, and Alfred John Platt, who was charged with Charles Joseph Skutts, was sentenced fo one day's imprisonment, the three first-named cases sentences were to run concurrently with the exception of Platt. Previous conviction were proved and there was in each case a number of outstanding charges against the prisoners which they requested should be taken into consideration, principally case of thefts, for the most part, of bicycles.] [M H S - 49yr.]