ONCE A ROBBER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 98, 9 April 1934, Page 7

ONCE A ROBBER

Lived Down His Crime CALGARY (Alberta;, April 2. Sentenced 24 years ago to life imprisonment for a mail robbery at Salt Lake City, Frank Grigware, then 20 years of age, escaped from gaol within three months of his incarceration and succeeded in utterly obliterating himself. For two years he lived quietly in Western Canadian villages and then settled at Jasper (Alberta), where he married and became the father of a large family. With two daughters attending high school and enjoying the confidence of the community of Jasper, James Fahey completely divorced himself from his criminal career and his farm was a model homestead. Annoyed recently by marauding deer, which were injuring his crops, he shot one animal and was prosecuted by the mounted police because the shooting occurred in a Federal game preserve. Once he was arrested, Fahey’s fingerprints were identified as those of Grigware. The United States Government is demanding his return to serve his life sentence, while his neighbours of the last 20 years are appealing to the Governor-General to intercede for a man who has become a good citizen.