[email protected] wrote 2014-06-01 02:04: > > [...] Karlstad's prison records, where I found Eric Johan > Skogstrom who falsified something in 1868 and did go to > the prison for a year. > > At Fångvårdsanstalten i Karlstad DIIIfb:9(1868-1868) Bild > 131 (AID: v167834.b131, NAD: SE/VA/11582) in the third main > column it says "Förfalskningsbrott – Magistraten i Carlstad." > Does that mean he falsified records AT the Magistrate in > Carlstad or they were the ones who caught him? --- I think it means he was sentenced by the city court in Karlstad, "magistraten" were the members of the city court. > > Could you help with a few words in the next column? I read > "Den 22 dennes under?? ?? inför Rådstafs(?) Rätten i Carlstad -- > 1868 den 25 Juli ankom och kunggjördes Rådstafs Rätten i Carlstad > Utslag af den 22 i samma månad ??? Skogström för förfalskning > af skuld, förbindelse ?? 900 Riksdaler blifit dömd att undergå > ett års straffarbete samt under tio år vara förlustig medborgerligt > förtroende. Skogström med utslaget nöjd, började den 25 Juli > undergå bestraffningen." --- Den 22 dennes undergick rannsakning inför Rådstufu Rätten i Carlstad -- 1868 den 25 Juli ankom och kungjordes Rådstufu Rättens i Carlstad Utslag af den 22 i samma månad hvarigenom Skogström för förfalskning af skuldförbindelse stor 900 Rd blifit dömd att undergå ett års straffarbete samt under tio år vara förlustig medborgerligt förtroende. Skogström, med utslaget nöjd, började den 25 Juli undergå bestraffningen. The 22nd of this month went through examination before the city court in Karlstad -- 1868 the 25th July arrived and was published the city court's in Karlstad verdict of the 22nd of the same month according to which Skogström for falsifying a debt obligation of 900 riksdalern had been sentenced to one year prison labor and also during ten years be without civic reputaion. Skogström, with the sentence satisfied, began the 25th July serve the sentence. > > So it sounds like he falsified some records, maybe at Carlstad's > Magistrate, that involved a debt of 900 Riksdaler and we have already > been through his sentence (thank you for that information earlier). > He was satisfied with the sentence and started it 25 July. --- "Magistraten" was the mayor and city councilmen, they were also the members of the city court. > > There is some more information about this at Fångvårdsanstalten i > Karlstad DIIIaa:12(1868-1868) Bild 66 / sid 55 (AID: v167746.b66.s55, > NAD: SE/VA/11582). In the column describing his looks, after hair is > "ansigt" (or ansikt) and I cannot read the answer, it looks like "vvart". --- "ansigte ovalt" = face oval [shape] > > Under height, it looks like they used feet (?) so he was 5 feet 7 ?? --- 5 fot 7 tum (5ft 7in) A Swedish tum was slightly shorter than an English [and US] inch. > > In the next column, it says "förfalskning ??? af ?? Rätten i Carlstad." --- Förfalskning. Införpassad af Rådstufvu rätten i Carlstad. = Put in [prison] by the city court in Karlstad. The 5th column on the right lists the things he had with him to the prison, in the next column he has signed that he got them back when he was released, and the last column has his release the 18th May 18 1869. // Bo Johansson