CRIPPLED FOR LIFE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3831, 14 August 1928, Page 1

CRIPPLED FOR LIFE.

BURGLAR’S UNLUCKY LEAP. Crippled for life as a result of jumping from a bedroom wipdow when endeavouring to escape arrest, James Brady, aged 72, slater, was treated mercifully at a London court lately, when he hobbled into the dock on crutches and was charged with breaking into a house. It was stated that the occupier of the house, finding the front door had been tampered with sent for the police. Prisoner was discovered on a concrete path outside with one arm and a leg broken, and an injury to the left eye which cost, him his sight. liis pockets contained articles stolen from the house. It appeared that when the occupier of the house switched on the electric light, he turned on the light in an upper room, in which prisoner happened to be. This frightened Brady, who attempted a hurried exit by way of the window, expecting to drop on to the earth of the garden. In falling lip struck liis eye on the sill. Many previous convictions were proved against Brady, who received four sentences of seven years’ penal servitude between 1876 and 1903. A dealer in Caledonian Road market offered to take care of the old man, and pleaded that liis return to. crime followed on being in arrears with his rent. The court bound Brady over.