CHASE IN A CEMETERY
PURSE STOLEN FROM GRAVE. " MOST DASTARDLY ACTION." '"This is the most impudent theft and dastardly "action I havo ever known," said Mr, C. Cooper, chairman of the Gainsborough magistrates, on August 9, when sentencing George Webster, aged 53, a labourer, of Loughborough, to two months' imprisonment. Webster had stolen a purse containing a ten-shilling Treasury note and ten shillings and elevenpence in loose cash from Mrs. Betsy Needham, at the Gainsborough Cemetery. Mrs. Needham said she left her purse on a grave while siie obtained a supply of water for some flowers. The magistrates complimented Mr. Harold Hollingsworth, a Gainsborough man; on capturing Webster after an exciting chase.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20058, 22 September 1928, Page 16
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112CHASE IN A CEMETERY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20058, 22 September 1928, Page 16
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