Sir Chartres Biron, former chief metropolitan magistrate, tells this story in "The Empire Review:"—A fr:end of mine, who commanded a tank during the Great War, told me that the pleasantest man to work with and the bravest under him was a professional burglar. When peace came he suggested that as the burglar had now some money in hand he should give up crime and try some honest occupation. "No," he said, "I am going to do a thing I have never been able to afford before, and buy the finest set of burglarious tools that are made."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 23
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