THE DARTMOOR SHEPHERD.
ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY. By Telegraph.— Association.— London, April 4. David Davies, the Old Shepherd of Dartmoor, who achieved fame as the result of the Home Secretary securing his release from Dartmoor prison, where he was serving a long sentence, has been arrested for housebreaking at Oswestry. " • \ The House of Commons ironically ' cheered Mr. Churchill when he referred to the arrest. ( ~( Mr. Lloyd-George stated during > the election campaign that he had with Mr. Winston Churchill visited Dartmoor, and found ; there in convict garb a man named Davies, •who had.been sentenced to. 13.years' imprisonment for having stolen'2s out of a church poor box. Later, when the matter was referred to in .Parliament, Mr; Churchill said he had advised that the man ' should be ' released and found work as a shepherd, as he had. the gift-of calling, to him by name the individual sheep in. his flock. The' man was released, and the " situation found for him, bint he soon disap- ;. peared. It then transpired that! the man was a confirmed criminal. His 13 years' , sentence for the poor box theft was really three years' imprisonment, followed, by 10 < years' detention as an habitual criminal. " „
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14648, 6 April 1911, Page 5
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195THE DARTMOOR SHEPHERD. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14648, 6 April 1911, Page 5
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