A PRISONER’S REMARKABLE CONFESSION.

Evening Star, Issue 12900, 24 August 1906, Page 2

A PRISONER’S REMARKABLE CONFESSION.

A sensational confession was in the Dublin Police Court the other day, when a man named John Allen was remanded for a week on a charge of extensive jewellery robberies in Dublin, Sis years ego prisoner gave himself op . at Lincoln, staring that he had stolen nearly £3,000 worth of jewellery from Messrs Hopkins and Messrs Jamieson in the year 1900 during the visit of the late Queen to Ireland. hU statement, which was read in court, showed that be had been employed by the Telephone Company, end knew the inside of both establishment®. After the robbery at Hopkins's prisoner admitted having gone to Liverpool. He dropped some of the jewellery into the sea, and after a short time in Liverpool returned to Dublin, where he handed a portion of the stolen property to a companion, who proceeded to London to dispose of some, but he never returned, and the prisoner had not seen Prisoner next dealt 'isdtL Lift

breaking into Jamieson'?. Ho concealed himself in the room over the shop, and during the night cut his way through the ceiling. Ho took a largo quantity of jewellery from tho back of the counter, and left the premises at 2 a.m. by the ball door. Auer the robbery ho shipped on board the Majestic as a trimmer. He spent six' months in Boston, where he sold stolen articles to\yarious people for £IOO. , Then ho returned to Dublin, was re-employed by tho Telephone Company, but afterwards enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regiment, and was drafted to Lincoln barracks. He stole jewellery in Lincoln, and was there sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.