A SILLY YOUNG MAN.
Mr Edgar George Craddock, assistant paymaster of H.M.S. Katoomba, is a remarkably foolish young man. The vessel was lying in ( Bydney Harbour. Craddock cashed a ship's cheque for £2000, and deposited the sovereigns in her treasury! The same evening ab 6 o'clock |ie left the ship, carrying with him a email Gladstone bag aud a portmanteau. And as the jovereigna were found to have disappeared also, the. conclusion wes that he took them , frith him. He was arrested in Melbourne two Or three days later, living under the name of Harper at the Grand Hotel. By this time he bad taken onto himself a wife. He married 'fcer the day after the robbery, and her story is /that during the six months she had kno,Bfl him phe knew^him as Harper only, and she believed him to be an elcotrical engineer. Altogether
he took from the vessel £2400. His wedding trip cost £200, and the balance he has restored. The crime was an idiotic one, looked at from any point of view. Detection was bound to follow, and following as soon ax it did Craddock's interval of pleasure and bliss was brief indeed. His timo of repentance will be longer.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2251, 22 April 1897, Page 36
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203A SILLY YOUNG MAN. Otago Witness, Issue 2251, 22 April 1897, Page 36
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