DUMMY SUITCASE THEFTS
GRADUATE SENTENCED. LONDON, May 5. A Cambridge graduate and ex-cap-tain in the Army, who was said to have used a dummy suitcase in carrying out thefts at London railway termini, was sentenced at Bow street yesterday, to 12 months’ hard labour. Theodore Benjamin Hoste l , o£ Meard-street, Soho, was charged with, stealing four suitcases and their contents from Charing Cross, Euston, Paddington, and King’s Cross Stations. He asked for 17 similar cases to be taken into consideration. Det.Sergt. Payton said that Hoste’s method was to walk off with a suitcase, leaving a worthless one near by to explain his “mistake” in the event of his being challenged. He was a plausible, cunning thief, who would deceive anybody. In 1921, Hoste was sentenced to six months for obtaining a £l,OOO cheque by false pretences. Hoste told the magistrate (Mr Fry) that in several cases where he fould that the owners were poor people ho had returned the property to them.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1936, Page 8
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