FORTY-SIX YEARS IN PRISON.
After spending .forty-six years in various prisons all over England, John William. McCarthy has died in Birmingham gaol, aged seventy-nine, where he was undergoing a long sentence for burglary at New Mills and Chapel-en-le-Frith. Derbyshire. McCarthy’s robberies were chiefly from mansions, offices, warehouses, and hotels, and he often buried his booty and returned for it when released from prison. Once he paid a nocturnal visit to a famous judge who had sentenced him. harnessed liis lordship’s horses to his coach, donned the coachman’s livery and drove off with the coach and pair. On the dark and lonely road, he overtook a policeman, to whom he gave stride. But McCarthy’s next sentence wa-s fo~ stealing the judge’s coach and pair. On other occasions, also, he took his revenge on magistrates who had convicted him.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 October 1924, Page 9
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137FORTY-SIX YEARS IN PRISON. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 October 1924, Page 9
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