Ladkyis
09-07-2009, 12:26 PM
For anyone wondering why they can't find an ancestor in the registers of 1923 for Abergavenny, read on...
Western Mail Saturday June 14th 1924.
Thomas GETHING 24, blacksmith's striker, and Percy POTTER, 25, collier, both pleaded guilty to having broken and entered the guardian's office at Abergavenny on January 9, and having stolen £60 in money, a register of births, a register of deaths, and a large number of certificates, the property of his Majesty's Registrar-General, and further with having unlawfully destroyed the registers and certificates.
Mr. Ralph THOMAS prosecuted, and said after breaking into the office the men threw the registers and certificates into the river, with the result that all the contents had drifted out to sea, and there were a number of births and deaths of which Somerset House had no record.
The Judge said that GETHING had had every leniency shown him. In consideration of their having spent four months in gaol awaiting trial, GETHING would be sent to prison for fifteen months, and POTTER, whose record was not to bad, for nine months.
Western Mail Saturday June 14th 1924.
Thomas GETHING 24, blacksmith's striker, and Percy POTTER, 25, collier, both pleaded guilty to having broken and entered the guardian's office at Abergavenny on January 9, and having stolen £60 in money, a register of births, a register of deaths, and a large number of certificates, the property of his Majesty's Registrar-General, and further with having unlawfully destroyed the registers and certificates.
Mr. Ralph THOMAS prosecuted, and said after breaking into the office the men threw the registers and certificates into the river, with the result that all the contents had drifted out to sea, and there were a number of births and deaths of which Somerset House had no record.
The Judge said that GETHING had had every leniency shown him. In consideration of their having spent four months in gaol awaiting trial, GETHING would be sent to prison for fifteen months, and POTTER, whose record was not to bad, for nine months.