At Leamington, on Monday, an elderly man named James Bradley, who was stated to be well known to the police of most of the large towns in the kingdom, and to have been convicted of numerous acts of swindling, was committed for trial on the charge of stealing a set of diamond studs, of the value of eighteen guineas, from the shop of Mr. H. Bright, jeweller, Lower Parade. Prisoner has passed in various places as Captain Logan, Major Bradbury, and Dr. Mackintosh, and his career has been a very remarkable one.
1, Park Place, Stour Street, and 46b, Augusta Street, Birmingham
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Eccles, Thos., 1, Park-place, Stour-street, Birmingham, and 46b, Augusta-street, Birmingham, jeweller. June 1. T. C. Cheston, sol., 148, Moor-street, Birmingham.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 5th July 1877
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, Alfred George Collingridge and Frederick Theodore Krauth, carrying on business together as Watch Makers and Repairers, at No. 124, Great Hampton-street, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, under the style or firm of F. T. Krauth and Collingridge, has been dissolved, by mutual agreement, as from the 8th day of February instant; and that the said business will, in future, be carried on by the said Frederick Theodore Kranth alone, who will receive and pay all debts due to or owing by the late partnership.—Dated this 12th day of February, 1879.
Alfred George Collingridge.
Frederick Theodore Krauth.
Source: The London Gazette - 18th February 1879
The Military Cross has awarded to each of two Handsworth brothers, the sons of Mr. W, S. Luckman, 66, Boulton Road. The elder brother is Lieutenant W. F. Luckman, of the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, and the younger is Second Lieutenant H. J. Luckman, of the Worcestershire Regiment. Both were originally members of one of the City Battalions, joining at Christmas, 1915. .......... The younger brother, Second Lieutenant H. J. Luckman, won the cross for leading a successful raid and personally attacking and killing four Germans. Several prisoners were were taken, valuable information acquired, and the officer brought his party back without a casualty. When he joined the City Battalion he was within a few months of completing his apprenticeship with Mr. F T Krauth, watchmaker, of Great Hampton Street.
At Birmingham a charge has been preferred against John Roper, aged 39, a jeweller, of Aston, of stealing £150 worth of diamonds from the warehouse of Mr. Radford, jeweller, Vyse-street, He was committed for trial.
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