DEBONAIR BURGLAR.
■. ; _ ■ .he FIVE YEARS IN GAOL. " ndaRESULT OF SLENDER CLUE. : _ ' iilift LONDON. Dec. 3. ™ An amazing career is ascribed* to a ln( j Rallies-like burglar, Arthur - Wilkinson,, in who was convicted of robbing country A houses in the Thames Valley, and has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment. The conviction of Wilkinson was duo to the detectives' discovery of part of a, wooden matchbox, in a house that had been robbed. The remainder of the box was in Wilkinson's pocket. ■ . • Wilkinson, who was released in March, after serving a sentence for burglary, posed as a man of independent means. He lived at West End hotels, played bowls and cricket, and entertained tho local police and actresses on a houseboat . on the Thames. He .left a police party and immediately committed a burglary.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18888, 10 December 1924, Page 9
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