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[Oval stamp for Secretary G.N.R. for Great Northern Railway, 10 January 1867]

Inspectors Office

Kings Cross Station

9^th February 1867

Horatio Holland convicted of stealing a copper tap at Leeds [Station]

Sir,

This boy who is 10 years old was apprehended [stopped] at Leeds by our Borough Police on suspicion of stealing a copper tap value 7 shillings. He was taken before a Magistrate [judge] on the 20^th ultimo [of last month] and remanded until the 4^th instant [kept in custody until the 4^th of the present month].

Subsequent enquiry shewed that the tap was stolen from the urinal yard [men’s toilets] at the Central Station Leeds and was therefore the property of this Company [Great Northern Railway].

He was convicted of the offence on the 4^th instant by Joseph Bateson & Edwin Esquires Borough Justices and sentenced to receive 12 strokes with a birch rod on his bare back which sentence was carried out under the inspection of Mr. Bateson.

This is for your information, after perusal [looking over] please forward [this letter] to the Secretary.

I am Sir,

Yours obediently,

Thomas Williams

Inspector

C. Johnson Esquire