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« on: Saturday 18 December 10 15:45 GMT (UK) »
It was reported in Berrow's Worcester journal on Saturday 23rd Feb 1895.
In brief Charles Simpson Clubb age 31 , a weights & Measures inspector,was found guilty on Tuesday 19th Feb of forging a chqs for £7 and £4 5s at Chorley on 31st Dec 1894. member of police force at Chorley for 10 years where as a result of good behaviour had been promote to weights and measures inspector at a wage of £133 per year. Sentenced to 9mths imprisonment with hard labour
also reported in Blackburn weekly Standard & Express same day
extra details - pleaded not guilty but provided no evidence - they state forgery took place march 1894 - excuse - sickness in family of 4 children & forced though stress of poverty to use money but had no intention of cheating anyone.
Huddersfield Daily Chronicle Jan 24 1895
extra - weights and measures for Chorley & Ormskirk Divisions
signatures forged were the acquittance signatures of Messrs Baxendale and sons, ironmongers, to bills which he should have paid on behalf of the county for over £35 - bail was refused