NATIONALITY PUZZLE

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 1

NATIONALITY PUZZLE

MAH WITH CRIMINAL PAST Having voluntarily stated that h® travelled about the country committing crimes, Leo Antosiewiez, aged twentylive, seaman, admitted at a Cardiff court lately that he had stolen electric torches and batteries in a store, and asked that two outstanding cases of larceny as Swansea should be taken into consideration. Giving details of the career of Antosiewiez, a detective stated that when he was five months old he was taken from Poland, where he wa,s horn, to America. There he was reared, and afterwards obtained work on boats, working on the Great Lakes. He was convicted for burglary several times in America. After serving eleven months of a five years’ reformatory detention sentence he escaped. Three years afterwards accused waa again arrested for burglary and was sent to a reformatory, but escaped. Later ho was sentenced to a term of from five to twenty years in a State reformatory, and after serving two yeara was deported to Germany. Returning to New York he was allowed out on bail and absconded. In 1931 accused was deported to Hamburg and went thence to Poland, where he was conscripted into the Polish Army, but deserted after serving one month. Ha was put into prison, but escaped and was believed to have travelled around until his arrival in Britain. In February, 1934, accused wa® found in a bedroom at Welwyn, Hertforshire, and was believed to have entered the country with an- irregular passport and was recommended for deportation. It was. however, found impossible to give effect to the recommendation because the authorities were not satisfied as to what country he belonged. The judge sentenced Antosiewiez t® nine months’ imprisonment.