CONVICT’S £20,000 FOR INVENTION
A convict named Harold Marks, who came to San Quentin prison in California penniless on a robbery charge in 1928, .has just been released with £20.000 in ins'pocket. Harold Marks, who devoted Ins spare time in, prison to tinkering with a burglar proof lock, has sold the .invention to an Eastern concern loi £20,000. - r
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 3
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59CONVICT’S £20,000 FOR INVENTION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 3
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