PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING
A MAN WHO REPENTED. I SALVATION ARMY CONVERT. (Times-Sydney Sun Special Cable.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 19. A grim romance ended yesterday in Highgate Cemetery in the burial of a man named George Cook with full Salvation Army honours. Thirteen years ago at the Old Bailey a judge, in sentencing him to 12 years' imprisonment, pronounced Cook the most expert coiner of the century. I Commencing with a sentence of nine months for passing base coin, Cook spent over 30 years in prison, his sentences aggregating 45 years. Whilst serving his last sentence Cook came under the Army influence, and procured a ticket-of-leave in 1910. Cook then publicly confessed on the penitent's form, and has since been a loyal and steadfast soldier, living a blameless life.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 5
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