Julia Rowland ca 1882-ca 1966

[Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle, Tuesday 05 March 1935. Theft of a Fire Brick Back from a Yard. Swindon Builder Fined: Filled in with Ernest Albert Edward Gunning, builder, of 59 Manchester Road, was charged at the Swindon Borough police court yesterday with stealing fire-brick back, value 12s., the property of the Building and Public Works Construction Co., Ltd., on 12 February or 13 February. Gunning, who pleaded not guilty, was found guilty, and was fined £5. with 12s.6d costs, and it was ordered that the fire brick back should be returned to Messrs. Colborne, from whose yard it disappeared. Supt. W T Brooks said that Gunning was engaged to put in a new grate at a house in Avening Street, and between 12 and 13 February, the Public Works and Construction Co., Ltd.. of which Messrs. Colborne were the principals, lost a fire-brick back from their yard. It was one of six supplied in November specially to Messrs. Colborne, and five had been used. The police made inquiries. A constable saw marks on a wall, and in consequence went to Gunning's, and discovered that that day he was putting a grate in Avening Street. He saw the grate and later he went there again with Mr. Colborne and he found the defendant there. A name on the grate had been chipped off since he first saw the grate. The place where the name had been was filled with plaster. Gunning said in explanation that he had clipped the back as he was using a hacksaw on other parts of the grate. He said that he got the grate at Colborne's some time ago and later said that it was the first thing he had ever taken from the yard without notifying Mr. Colborne the foreman. William Beams, l20 Cheney Manor Road, Mrs. Julia Scutts, 2 Avening Street & E W Scutts, her husband, gave evidence.] [J S - 84yr.]