RAIDER FOILED
BRAVE YOUNG CASHIER
While Harry Waldron, 17-year-old booking clerk, was making up accounts at Victoria Park Station, Hackney, London, Thomas John Warner, alias George Watson, appeared and called, "Stick 'em up!" He had something hard in his pocket, and pressed it against Waldron's rib's. Demanding some notes, he declared, "If you don't give them to me I wili
fire."
The lad pulled open a drawer and pressed an emergency bell to call
help. Warner grabbed two notes, and Waldron held him by the waist until a porter arrived.
The result was that when Warner appeared before Mr Basil Watson, K.C., the North London magistrate, he was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for stealing "two 10/- notes."
It was stated that a pipe was found in his possession.
The magistrate commended Waldron "most highly," and Mr Humphreys, prosecuting, commented: "I think he acted with considerable pluck for a boy of his age."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 5
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153RAIDER FOILED Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 5
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