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THIEF TAKES HANDBAG Sentence of two months’ imprisonment in the second division was passed at Bow street, London, on Walter Barclay, aged 59, for stealing a handbag from a seat in St. Faith’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey, while the owner was at prayer. , . It was stated that after missing her bag Miss Joan Louise Kiy, a civil servant, of Manor Park, followed Barclay out of the Abbey, and he was stopped by a verger. The bag was concealed under his overcoat. Mr Lucien Fior. defending, pointed out that in the last few years Barclay had b:en the victim of a series of misfortunes. He had lost a fortune, and his wife, son and daughter had died. He was now dependent on the earnings of his second wife as a charwoman.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23690, 23 December 1938, Page 10
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