REMARKABLE CRIMINAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 5

REMARKABLE CRIMINAL

NOT A ST. ANTHONY EXIT.t > ITS IX BRTT AIX TALK TOLD IX COURT .Aust. and N.Z. Cabte) London, Oct. 3. Anthony St. George, 36, described as the most remarkable criminal of the present generation, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for burglaries involving £3OOO. .George, who is highly educated and pleasant mannered, became a ser-geant-major during the war and was sent to America to train troops. His story reads like a detective thriller. He first became a menace by burgling large country bouses. In 1923 lie hail a well equipped house boat at Guildford, where he entertained during the daytime lavishly, including a party of police and their wives. Ho was the life of every gay party on board the boat. HIS STRANGE POWER George had a motor car and always plenty of money. The police in the meantime were perplexed by a whole series of burglaries in the neighbourhood till ultimately a constable traced a bicycle track from a burgled house to the house, boat. George could scale house walls like a monkey and had strange power over dogs. None ever harked at liiin mid the most ferocious came crawling to bis feet. XERYE ANT) SKILL ‘A on must he a hold and courageous main,, because you have burgled throughout the country alone, which requires nerve and skill, said the Judge, when passing sentence.