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BUSINESS BY DAY, BURGLARY
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SPECIAL TO SYDNEY SUN,
New York, April 23. An extraordinary case of duplicity, which the judge who sentenced the accused declared to be unparalleled in his long experience, came up at the General Sessions Court to-day, when AValter Thomas.Young, a young Englishman, admitted the correctness of tlie report from Scotland-yard describing him as a burglar -who had served three terms of imprisonment in England.
Thomas Young worked as an insurance solicitor (canvasser) by day and as a burglar by night. He was a regular _ attendant at a fashionable church in Brooklyn, where he also taught Sunday school. ■ The pitiful part of the story is that he was engaged to marry a beautiful young woman of respectable connections, who tearfully appealed to the judge to suspend the sentence and permit her to marry and reform the prisoner.
The plea was rejected, and a sen tence of four and a, half years' imprisonment, was passed.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2090, 6 June 1913, Page 4
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