From The Evening Sentinel of 7 November 1939: "FORGERY CHARGE, Young Farm Worker in Court at Oakmere. Oakmere Magistrates yesterday referred Alfred Crimes, a 17-year-old farm labourer, of Rose Cottage, Duddon, to the prison authorities for report as to whether he was suitable to undergo Borstal treatment. Crimes had pleaded Guilty to stealing a cheque, forging the cheque for the payment of £4 12s. 6d., drawn on the National Provincial Bank Ltd., and obtaining, by virtue of the forged cheque, £4 12s. 6d. from the Bank at Tarporley.... The employer, Joseph Forster, haulage contractor, of Tarporley, said he dismissed the accused and destroyed the cheque when it came back from the Bank. He did not wish to prosecute." However, from The Liverpoool Echo of 8 January 1940: "A 17-years-old youth, Alfred Crimes, of Rose Cottage, Duddon, near Tarporley, was sentenced to three years' detention in a Borstal institution, at Chester Quarter Sessions to-day, for stealing a banker's cheque..."
CheshireBMD gives the location of the 1943 marriage as "West Cheshire, Civil Marriage or Registrar Attended". |
