Kentish Independent – Friday 07 November 1952
ABBEY WOOD MAN WAS LED INTO TROUBLE
Stated to have been led into trouble when he got into un-desirable company, Joseph Ernest Dalladay, 22, street trader, of Abbey Grove, Abbey Wood, was placed on probation for years when he came up for sen-tence at the London Sessions. two
Last sessions. Dalladay pleaded guilty with three other men, who were sentenced to 15, 18 and 21 months’ Imprisonment for a re-ceiving church bell, other articles, which had been stolen from a store in St. Peter’s Church. Courtlands Avenue, Lee, and for taking and driving away a lorry from Kentmere Road, Plumstead, belonging to Harry William Alcorn, of Barth Road, Plumstead.
Mr. Eric Dashwood, Court Probation Officer, said that Dalladay, who had lost a leg in an air raid at the age of 15, had not been in trouble betore