Benjamin HULIN (Serious Charge 30 May 1903) (General)

by Paul Andrews , Shropshire, England, Thursday, November 14, 2013, 17:04 (4102 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

Source: Cheltenham Chronicle Sat 30 May 1903

THE SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A COLEFORD INSURANCE AGENT
At a special session held at Coleford on Thursday, before Messrs. T. T. Taylor and S. J. Thomas, Charles Bosworth, an insurance agent, of Whitecliff, was again brought up in custody charged by P. S. Price with breaking into a dwelling house at Sling and stealing £1 15s. 9d, in money, the property of Benjamin Hulin, son of James Hulin, a mason, of the same place.- After hearing the evidence of James Nash, Emma Jenkins, Benjamin Hulin, Elizabeth Hulin, Albert Hoare, and William Evans, who all deposed to seeing the prisoner in the neighbourhood on the evening of the robbery, and P. S. Price and P. C. Wiltshire, who arrested the accused, the prisoner elected to give evidence. He denied that he was anywhere near Hulin’s house that day. Benjamin Hulin (re-called) said he was certain prisoner was the man whom he saw in the bedroom and who forced him on the bed and tried to stifle him with the bedclothes. He knew prisoner very well indeed, as he went and took work which witness was compelled to give up owing to ill health.- The Chairman said prisoner would be committed to take his trial at the forthcoming Gloucestershire Assizes. He would be allowed bail in the sum of £50 and two sureties of £25 each.

The Gloucester Citizen, published on 24 June 1903, reported on the Gloucester Trinity Quarter Sessions. James Bosworth was charged with stealing £1 15s 9d, the monies of Benjamin and Elizabeth Hulin, of Sling. The jury, after a short deliberation, found him guilty, and he was sentenced to three months hard labour.