10 YEARS AND CAT

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1933, Page 12

10 YEARS AND CAT

FOR BANK RAID. LONDON, June 29. Two brothers were each sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude and fifteen strokes of the cat at Newcastle Assizes yesterday. They were two of three men who pleaded guilty to the armed robbery at the Cattle Market branch of Lloyds Bank, Newcastle, on June 2. Passing sentence, Mr. Justice Charles said: “You have carried out a raid which, thank goodness, is practically unknown in this country. When it is carried out it must and shall be suppressed with an iron hand.” The men sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude and the cat were Joseph Duffy, 30, and Thomas Duffy. 28, both of Edinburgh. The third man, William Myles Ab-, hot, of Edinburgh, described by Mr." Justice Charles as a catspaw. was sentenced lo twelve months’ imprisonment in the second division.

I Police Inspector Donohoe said the I Duffys were convicted of an armed robbery in the United States in 1927, and were sent meed to twenty years in Sing Sing Prison. They’ were afteri wards pardoned and deported. When they returned to this country they told their story, entitled. “My Life as an American Gangster," in a weekly newspaper. In this article they described the American bank robI bevy. and the methods then employed | were identical with those used at NewI castle. The inspector said during the holdup a, giid of 15 was forced against the wall of the bank at the point of the revolver by one of the accused. She must have suffered severe mental ;agony, for the police were unable I to call her as a witness owing to her! [ condition. I BIRCH FOR LONDON RAIDER. Hyman Adelman, 21. bookkeeper, one of three men who took part in an attempted robbery at. the Commercialroad branch or Lloyds Banks on March 3, was sentenced at the Old Bailey' yesterday to eight months’ imprisonment and fifteen strokes with, the birch. A man named Black was sentencedi at a. previous sessions to twelve months’ imprisonment and eighteen strokes with the birch in connection} with the same affair. *