DARTMOOR SHEPHERD.
WHERE IS. HE? ; By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 1, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, 28th February. In the House of Commons, voting Unionist members almost daily question Mr. Winston Churchill '(Home Secretary) respecting the whereabouts 1 of the Dartmoor shepherd. [David Evans, an aged shepherd, was released from Dartmoor by the Home Secretary, following" on . Ml. Lloyd George's reference to him in a speech at Mile End. Evans: disappeared an the second day from the job hie was given to enable him fco start a new life. Mr. Lloyd George said in his speech that the, man had been sentenced to thirteen years' penal servitude for stealing 2s from a. church poor-box. When Mr. Churchill was questioned in Parliament he admitted that the man was an old offender, that the sentence was really three' years, with ten 'years' dertieaition as an habitual under a recent^ Liberal Act. The man was said to possess the. gift of calling individual sheep to him by their names, and the Home Secretary promised to find him 'a. situation. Ac- i cordingly he was released in January last., and began work with a farmer near Ruttiin, North Wales, next day. He was pledged abt (to leav« for six I months, but two days latter he had vanished, since which time the police have I been unable to rearrest him.] " |
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 50, 1 March 1911, Page 7
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