BROKEN BOTTLES CLUE.
VARIED CAREER OF AN EXDETECTIVE. Broken champagne and Vermouth bottles in a garden at Walton?on-Thames formed a clue that led to the conviction at the Surrey Assizes of Thomas Beresford Mills Conolly (34), a musician, for stealing silver plate an<J wines valued at £150. According to the police evidence, Conolly had had a varied career. He gained a commission on the field in France, and later served with the "Black and Tan 6." His other occupations had been those of railway detective, bus inspector, steamboat steward and waiter. He was a married man with five children, and in 1926 he deserted his wife.
In the same year, it was stated, while employed as a waiter at Ascot, he became infatuated with a domestic servant in the same hotel, and he ran a book at the races, with the girl as clerk. They later lived together as man and wife at Southampton. The woman died at Hazlemere last May, as the result of an illegal operation. Conolly afterwards returned to his wife, who had been living on poor relief.
Sentence of eleven months' imprisonment was passed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)
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BROKEN BOTTLES CLUE.
Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)
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