For stealing a £1 note,

a fourteen year old Bideford boy was ordered by Bideford Borough magistrates at a Juvenile Court on Wednesday, to be sent to a remand home until a suitable approved school is found for him, and to stay there for three years.

Mrs H E Fulford presided, and other magistrates present were Alderman H A W Huxham and Mr Frederick Lee.

PC Warren read a statement made by the boy to the Police in which he stated that he went with Mr Bastin, who is a blacksmith, in a car to Woodtown. There Mr Bastin changed his coat and left it and the boy in the car and went about some work he was engaged on. The boy saw an envelope protruding from one of the coat prockets. He took it and found inside a £1 note and a bill. The latter he destroyed. He took the £1 note and gave it to his mother, telling her he had picked it up. PC Warrant added that when he went to the boy’s house, his mother was about to go to the Police Station with the £1 note.

Inspector Rendell said the boy was bound over for two years for stealing in March of this year.

Mrs H E Fulford said they were going to send the boy to an approved school and the Bench hoped he would keep quite straight. His father must pay the costs of the court.

Gazette article dated 31 August 1937