ROBBED LORD HEW ART.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)

ROBBED LORD HEW ART.

CRIMINAL'S OUTBURST WHEN SENTENCED. Finger impressions were mainly Responsible for the conviction at Hertford Assizes of a criminal, known under other names, but indicted as Harry Bond, aged 30, barber. There were seven convictions recorded against him since 1020 for various offences.

He strenuously denied that he had broken into the house of the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, at Garden Hill, Totteridge.

Lord Hewart's residence was twice entered while he and Lady Hewart were away on holiday, and everything was done to make the premises secure. But. on two occasions, an entrance was forced by means of the lady secretary's window.

The first time the intruder only took about M from a purse, which he discarded in the drawing room. On the second occasion, the person took away a portable noiseless typewriter, a gramophone, and a fsuit of clothes, belonging to Lord Hewart. altogether valued at £(18 11?/. The case for the prosecution in the first offence was that the intruder's linger impressions on a shutter, and those on a metal disc removed from a parchment taken from a forced red deed box, were identical with those of Bond. "They could have been no other person's," declared Detective Sergeant Birch, of the Fingerprint Department, Scotland Yard—an expert, who deals with 70,000 prints a year. "I've spent my time in prison as a boy,' blurted out Bond, when found guilty, "I may as well spend it so as an old man."

When Bond heard his sentence 18 months' imprisonment—he threw out his arms, and shouted, "When I come out I will do something proper."