PRISON FOR CONSTABLE
A Metropolitan policeman, Sidney Bowden, aged 29, who was to have been married last Easter, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to 12 months’ imprisonment for pavilion breaking and theft, states the Daily Telegraph. Bowden was stated to have said to one of his superiors: “ I have been betting heavily, and lost all the money I saved for my wedding. I was absolutely at my wits’ end for money.” Divisional Detective Inspector George Somerset said that at the beginning of this year Bowden had £llO in a savings bank. Now it had gone, and he was in debt to bookmakers. Bowden said that while in Brixton Prison awaiting trial his fiancee had visited him, and their wedding would take place immediately he got work agbin. The recorder. Mr .Gerald Dodson, remarked that Bowden had only himself to blame for the ruin of his whole life.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 15
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148PRISON FOR CONSTABLE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 15
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