LORRY MEN ON THEFT CHARGES
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ELEVEN men, including a transport manager, a number of lorry drivers and labourers, appeared at Thames Court on Monday on charges of stealing lorries and their loads, involving property valued at about £40,000. They were remanded on bail totalling £6,100 until August II.
William Eastwood, 38, lorry driver, of Todmorden, Lanes, was remanded on his own bail of £500, charged with stealing a lorry loaded with chemical sundries, value unstated, the property of his employers, Wilkinson's Transport Ltd.
Ansel A. Fitzpatrick, 32, labourer, of Birmingham, was remanded on hi,. own bail of £100 charged with stealing lorry laden with shoes worth altogether £20,000, the property of his employers, Wilkinson's Transport (Birmingham) Ltd.
William A. Tolliday, 22, driver, of Bow, London; John H. Smith, 32, driver, of Bromley-by-Bow, London; Charles W. Brookman, 23, lorry driver, of Stepney, London, and Ronald W. Mulock, 29, driver, of Bow, were all charged with stealing an articulated lorry laden with 1,000 cartons of instant coffee, worth altogether £10,070, the property of Carmen's Transport Ltd. Mulock is charged, with Terence A. Cooper, 29, driver, of Dalston, London, Henry V. Axford, 33, transport manager, of Rotherhithe, London and George W. Ziepe, 31, driver, of Stepney, with stealing a lorry laden with textiles and goods worth a total of £4,150, the property of Wilkinson's Transport Ltd.
Mulock was also charged with two other men—John Young, 21, driver, of Rotherhithe, and John W. Green, 27, labourer, of Poplar, London—with stealing a lorry loaded with groceries, worth altogether £1,400, also the property of Wilkinson's.
A further charge against Mulock and Green is the theft of a lorry laden with 16 tons of copper, total value £4,000, property of Greenwood's Transport Ltd. Mulock was remanded on his own bail of £1,000 and four sureties of £500. Smith, Cooper and Axford were allowed their own bail of £500. Ziepe and Green were allowed their own bail of £300. Young was allowed his own bail of £100 with a surety, and Brookman and Tolliday were remanded on their own bail of £100 each.