Birmingham daily post Saturday 14 October 1916
GIPSIES’ EFFORTS TO ESCAPE SERVICE
Three gipsies who were stated to have evaded Military service were charged at Sheffield, yesterday, as absentees. The military stated that they had great difficulty in tracking the men, who were van-dwellers, and on account of their peripatetic habits, but they were traced to Darnall this week.The police found them in a public house, and as soon as the prisoners noticed the officers, they created a disturbance. In the midst , one of them put the room in darkness, smashing all the lights. There was a scuffle, but the police guarded the exits and secured their men. One man, who said he had been rejected, was handed over to the military,
Sheffield independent 14 October 1916
GIPSIES’ OFFENCE.
MEN WANTED BY MILITARY
Lively scenes in a Darnall hotel when the police were arresting three gipsies for not complying with the Military Service Act at the Sheffield Court yesterday. The men are van-dwellers staying on land in Darnall. Serge. Milner said that he went into the Duke of York Hotel to arrest the men, and as soon as he had announced his errand one of them. Charles lister, lifted his stick and said “Then here the ……goes.” He struck at the lighted chandelier, shattering a lamp and scattering pieces about the room The three, Charles Lister, and Harry Lister ,Henry Wiltshire (29). who said, he was crippled in one arm, and when he tried to enlist in July was told that the Army did not want cripples. they were handed over to the military authorities.
February 3 1906 Nottingham Evening Post
THIS DAY'S POLICE NEWS.
GUILDHALL. NOTTINGHAM ALLEGED FRAUD. —Henry Wiltshire, hawker, was charged with obtaining by false pretences on January 24th. the prisoner, who pleaded not guilty. Prosecutrix said prisoner came in with two other men carrying a heavy roll linoleum. They unrolled It, showing there was more than four yards length, and they ask 17s. afterwards she found it was only a short length. Mr. Young said that undoubtedly the woman had been led to purchase something which was not worth the money she paid for it, but there was no misrepresentation on part of the prisoner He did not say it was the same piece of linoleum, and it was unreasonable for the woman to expect for 5s. that what was worth 17s. The magistrates dismissed the case.
Monday 17 september 1934 nottingham evening post
GENTLEMAN AND HIS LADY FRIENDS.
NOTTM. DRUNKENNESS CHARGE.
When Henry Wiltshire, 50, hawker, of St. Ann'street, appeared before the magistrates with two women companions at the Nottingham Guildhall to-day, jointly charged with being drunk and disorderly in Milton-street on Saturday night, he declared himself to be a "gentleman," and took it upon himself the full blame for the lapse of the women. The women were Ellen Smith, 27, and Rose Ann Stranther, 40. Referring to one of them, Wiltshire declared :" My son married this woman's sister, and I had not seen this girl for a few years. They are here through me getting them drunk. "Its my fault." The Bench however, imposed fines. Wiltshire and Smith were fined the higher amounts
Wednesday 6 november 1907 nottingham evening post
Charge that Failed.—Henry Wiltshire, hawker, was charged with stealing a roll of linoleum, value £2, the property of Arthur Cooper, Prosecutor said he was linoleum dealer. On the 31rt prisoner, his uncle, and witness were out with an horse and cart selling the roll, and called at a public house.. When they had been there a quarter of an hour Wiltshire went out and failed to return. going out the horse and cart—which belonged to the uncle were gone. The following morning he saw him in Waterlane and called P.c. Priestley, who subsequently arrested him, Mr. R. A. Young, defending. argued that no case had been made out. His client attempted to sell the roll, and rather than take all the way bock left it with Mrs. Wragg. The charge was dismissed.
above it says Henry was Arthur Coopers Uncle , Elik said just in a matter of fact way to me that He once went to a Wiltshire wedding to a Cooper, my Aunty was Married to a Cooper, I don't know if He was of the Gipsys , Her name was Letty, I think its short for Letticia, or Lettia ,or Names sounding like that, thoes are Women's names, old Wiltshire Woman's names, just more to ponder on for Relatives who find these words
