Impression sketch
of Hyman Coots selling forged military passes - by Jamie.
The final trial
of fraudster Hyman Coots,
Took place 17
January 1915.
The Monday
Marlborough Street Police
Court deciding the
case
Of the Russian
Jew, a cinematograph actor.
Hyman Coots aged
18, gave his address
Of Lorne Road,
Brixton,
In Lambeth, a Borough of South London -
The charge was
forging
Military passes
and encourage desertion.
In an operation
to capture the fraudster,
Three men followed
Orders of
Canadian Military Police -
Private Alfred
Allen
And two Sergeants, went to his address.
Hyman Coots
supplied two military
Leave passes, in
exchange
For money from the
Sergeants, while
Providing
civilian clothes
To Allen in
suggesting his desertion.
Head of the
military Police Assistant
Provost Marshall,
Captain Hewitt, while taking the case
To the court had
left
The final outcome
to the magistrate.
With the two
charges made before
The court, Mr
Denman
Presiding,
believed the prosecutions
Leniency was down
To the prisoner's
youth of 18 years.
One outcome could
have been taken
Further, to a
trial to lead
To a long term of
penal servitude -
Instead the
decision
Was to be a six
months sentence.
These would be
for each charge
To run side by
side
Resulting in a year’s
detainment -
Hyman Coots said
In his drug habit
he was oblivious
To what he had
done.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. Deserter
Decoy Sentenced. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 17 January 1916. P.12. Col.4. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12093336/Daily-Telegraph-January-18-1916.html
[Accessed: 17 January 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 17 January 2016).
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