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Theft of a coin


Source: Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser 05/04/1900       Date: 1900
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POLICE NEWS. Elizabeth Boswell, alias Emma Jones etc., a travelling hawker, was brought up at the Police Station on Monday to answer a charge of stealing money at the Pier Hotel on the previous Saturday the property of Mr Lawrence and also for being drunk. It seems that on the day refered to prisoner called at the Pier Hotel and after being served deliberately took a coin from the hands of a young girl employed on the premises and refused to return it. When arrested, prisoner who was in Vaynor-street was so much under the influence of drink that she had to be conveyed to the lock-up in a hand cart. She was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for pilferage and bound over on the other charge.
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Pier Hotel , Pier Street, Aberystwyth