BELOVED MAGISTRATE
THIEF’S ACTION RECALLED. LONDON. Dee. 15. Tlio don Hi of Sir Robert Dummett has robbed tlio London bench of one of its most popular figures. Sir Robert was a magistrate greatly beloved even by those whom he sentenced. Be was fair and full of sympathy, as well as just. Once lie received from a thief a tray that had been stolen from his house, and with it was this note: “You have been decent to a fellow that 1 know, and I am returning you something that is yours.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 122, 5 March 1942, Page 5
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