At a petty sessions held at Sutton [Coldfield], on the 15th inst., Stephen Wallis, sen., late of Erdington Slade, was convicted in a penalty of forty shillings and costs, for passing through a rail, set up by authority of an act of Parliament, by the side of the turnpike road, called the “Birmingham and Watford Gap, without paying the toll. – Correspondent.
(Birmingham Journal, 22nd June 1839)
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