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Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser, Friday 7 June 1946.
Stolen cotton blankets.
William George Collis and Keith Goodey, both in the Royal Engineers,
admitted stealing a motor car value £300, the property of Edward
Chantler at Highgate, Hawkhurst, on may 13th.
The car, a Hillman Saloon, was left unlocked at 9:55 p.m. with the
ignition key on the dashboard. At 10:30 p.m. Chantler found it missing.
Vehicle was found at 11:15 p.m. at Golford, Cranbrook, overturned by the
roadside and considerably damaged, to an extent exceeding £100.
Collis and Goodey were also charged with stealing two blankets valued £1
7s. 6d., the property of the War Department. A further charge against
Collis was that of stealing 6 more army blankets at Cranbrook.
In a statement to the police, Collis submitted disposing of blankets to
a gypsy at the "Old House at Home," Cranbrook, at which place he
received 6s. per blanket. Goody and Collis' statement was true.
The Bench sentence Collis to 6 months' hard labour for car stealing and
three months for stealing the blankets, the sentences to run
concurrently.
Goodey was fined £10 for the car theft and £5 for taking the blankets.
Sam Winter, of Furnace Farm, Cranbrook, farm labourer, admitted receding
five Army blankets and purchasing five more, value £3 8s. 9d., on May
12.
He was fined a total of £15.
Nellie Louisa Bryant, of the "Old House at Home," Cranbrook, pleaded
guilty to purchasing two Army blankets value £1 7s. 6d. on March 2 and
another valued 13s. 9d. She said they were unmarked.
A fine a £5 was imposed.
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