COCKNEY BANDIT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 5

COCKNEY BANDIT

HOPELESS CRIPPLE TO BE DEPORTED FROM U.S. NEW YORK, March 5. Morris Grecson, Detroit's famous "cockney bandit," has one aim now in life—to repay his loyal sister Dora for her unending battle for his freedom. Greeson, who is a hopeless cripple from a wound received during his last hold-up, will bo deported some time this month. He will go to his parents in London's East End. "It's a dream coming true," he said from his prison cell to-day in his cockney accent that made him famous 15 years ago. Fifteen years ago, Dora, then 18 years old, stood between her brothers-in a Detroit courtroom as the jury which was to find her elder brother, Michael, guilty of murder deliberated. "I'll never bo happy again," she said, "until wo can walk down the street together, all three, me between vou." Michael went to Marquette Prison (he was later pardoned and deported to England). Dora, went hack to England, but she came back when her other brother, Morris, was shot down and again she returned to England alone. "We'll all bo together again now," said Mori-is to-dav, "but I am afraid Dora won't be able to have the second part of her wish. I won't be able to walk down the street with her.' I'll bo in this wheelchair thing for the rest of my life, according to the doctors."