D.C.M.’S THEFTS
Remarkable statements wore nmdo at tho Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions, when Frank Percy Berry, n.n acooimtant, lately employed by Ideal Films, Li'!,, was sentenced to Unco years' ’■ ’iv 1 sorritudo c:i charges of stealing /;! tiro belonging to his employers.
Ito '-aid bo won tho D.C.f.I. and
.U.M’. in tlio war. In iv written statement ]jo claimed that ]>o had a dual personality—out that of a good citizen, and the other when order the infta&tco of drink, {’net (if a eiinhnn], 110 l;::d drani; himself into a condition of incipient insanity, and without th ought, of the consequences took whet did not belong to him in order to carry on his “ insane career of drinking and so-called enjoyment. ’’
Several previous convictions wore proved, and Inspector Idilor. said; "His vookness for women and wine and his liberality in buying jewellery for those women quickly accounted for the money which ho took.”
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Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 6
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150D.C.M.’S THEFTS Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 6
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