ONLY. 25 YEARS OF AGE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 14 April 1908, Page 3

ONLY. 25 YEARS OF AGE

Every penny of the money was found in "Manny's" possession and restored to the proprietors of the shop. Three convincing evidences of "Manny's" guilty were: the fact that the money found on him corresponded with the money missing, the paper in which the half-sovereign was wrapped, and the linen money-bag, which the shop people easily identified. And so it was that the crafty master burglar, the idol of his associates, the terror of the district, and the tormentor of the police, ultimately fell a prey to the shrewdness of an officer in uniform and to his own blunder in not disposing of the bag and the paper. To effect an entrance to this shop "Manny" and his man clambered over a wooden gate eight' feet high, the top of which was covered with six-inch spikes. Emmanuel Hill, or "Manny," is only twenty-five years of age. The sentence he is now beginning to serve is his tenth and longest.