SLIPPERY AUSTRALIAN.
BURGLAR ABSCONDS
LONDON
May 12
The original “cat burglar,” George Enright, alias George McCraig, an Australian, who, on April 4, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for loitering suspiciously. and who was granted bail pending his appeal, has absconded, and is believed to have gone to America.
The police have a list of his convictions, commencing with a term for burgiarlv at San Francisco, in 1919, under the name of Cyril G. Pegs, after which he served several sentences in other parts of America and then in England.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 149, 24 May 1928, Page 2
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90SLIPPERY AUSTRALIAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 149, 24 May 1928, Page 2
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