Rex v George Thomas Millership and James Midford Millership: press reports

28 July, 1906. "Concerning Plosky," Evening News. "George Thomas Millership, fifty-three, a Victoria Park chemist, and his son, James Millership, twenty-four, a collector, were charged at West Ham with conspiracy to obtain drugs from Messrs Burroughs Wellcome & Co ... On the way to the court, George Millership again showed the greatest interest in Plosky. Plosky, he declared, was 'the prime mover.' Plosky had 'done the ordering.'"

1 August, 1906. Brief cutting from The Star, noting that the Millerships were remanded on bail.

3 August, 1906. "Alleged Long Term Frauds," The British and Colonial Druggist, pp. 103-4. A longer account. "Mr Bodkin, who prosecuted, said the case was one of that character usually spoken of as long term frauds, wherein a combination of persons adopted larege numbers of different names, and flitted from one address to another, leaving rent unpaid, and obtaining goods generally on the faith of elaborate note headings and order forms, and then disposing of them at considerably under price."

4 August, 1906. The Chemist and Druggist, pp. 203-4.

4 August, 1906. The Pharmaceutical Journal, p. 153.

14 September, 1906. The Evening News. "At the Old Bailey, Lighter Moments in the Famous Court Today". Brief verbatim court exchange between Mr Bodkin and Mrs Bessie Laws.

22 September, 1906. "The Long Term Frauds," The Chemist and Druggist, pp. 461-2.

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