"KING OF BURGLARS."
NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL DIES. " Scotch Jamie," perhaps the most notorious burglar in the country since the time of Charles Peace, died recently in the prison section of Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. He had been removed from Peterhead Convict Settlement, where he was undergoing a sentence of 12 years passed on him in the Scottish - High Court of Judiciary in 1918. He was 74 years of age, and over 30 years of his life had been spent in prison. He was the master craftsman in burglar gangs in many paTts of the country, and burglaries planned by him on-a large scale were carried out. Muirhead always carried a loaded revolver, but ho never once made use of this when run, to earth by the poiice. In his younger days ho dressed faultlessly, "wearing a tall hat and frock-coat and affecting a monocle. He could speak several languages. In prison he was popular with the officials and delivered a serieß of leettKTse on " Life.''
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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