MODERN CLAUDE DUVAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1708, 24 December 1919, Page 5

MODERN CLAUDE DUVAL.

BURGLAR'S LOVE AFFAIRS. MOTOR BANDIT AT LEEDS. HOLD UP BANK AT PISTES POINT. LONDON, D(0. 12 Tho police note tho increase in daring burglaries with concern. One of the most remarkable was carried out in Belgravia at the residence of Paul Nclko. the son of a German banker. Early last night, a thief climbed the portico, entered a bedroom, and collected jewels valued at £IO,OOO. He. escaped un- . seen, though the family and servants were present in adjoining rooms. A huo-and-cry has been raised for Alfred Redfern, a .motor bandit, who is wanted in connection with a Leeds bank'outrage. ,v Jle.dfcrn is 6ft. high, and a former officer. He recently rented a shop at Bath, whore io courted a charming jfirl, • Describing tho robbery, a message, says' « hat tho burglar entered a bank at' Leeds, iid calkd out to the manager, Oates, to iold up his hands. Oates refused to cora,)!y, and attempted to capture the. burglar, who fired his revolver. Idling the manager instantly. , He then looked up three assistants in the. lavatory, find through the door, and curried iff £4OO, joining two accomplices in a vaiting motor car. and escaped. REDFERN ARRESTED. Redfern was arrested at Bristol. His appearance shows that, ho is suffering from wounds received during the war, but hp is ’ not deformed. The outrage has enhsed •xmsternation in Leeds, and tho police nro supplying guards for banks and railway stations, Redfern was a sociable, popular man, but subject, to nervous excitement. _ His shoj was called. “Marion’s Smart Little Shop for Women.” Ho docs not seem to have tried to evade r ho police, but travelled to Bath and joined two friends there and then went with other friends to Bristol, where he was arrested at the post office. A similar outrage was committed to-day it Barclay’s Bank. Wood Green, London, A discharged soldier, Brown,' entered th* manager’s office and held him- up with 1 revolver. The manager rushed for aasu tanco, and Brown fired, but hit nothing Pour clerks then held him until the police, arrived.

LONDON, Deo. 13

The numerous bank burglaries and daily jewel robberies in London, with the re cent murders and savage, assaults, are discussed in the newspapers as the beginning if a wave of crime predicted by doctors and criminologists as the aftermath of the, war. The smartest detective ate baffled and (he majority of cases suggest a new typo of theft combining extreipe cleverness with daring. The Daily Express urges sterner punishment — for all deliberate murderers, and flogging for lesser criminals. The correspondent of The Times at Bristol states that it appears that Rcdfern’s mind is intermitteply affected as the result of severe wounds, and ho was recently worried over unlucky speculations. His record of war service is excellent. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, and recommended for tho Military Cross. LONDON, Deo. 13. Redfern, emaciated. cadaverous and almost lifeless, was assisted into the dock today and charged with murder. He did- not plead, and wjs removed, leaning heavily on the policeman.