BURGLAR’S “LAST CASE”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 8

BURGLAR’S “LAST CASE”

MAN WHO WAS FREED ANOTHER 12 MONTHS LONDON, Aug. 11. Anthony .St. George, l 42, whose sentence at Dartmoor was remitted after one of his legs was fractured in. gaol, was at London sessions yesterday sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for a burglary at the East Grinstead home of Lord Glendyne.

Inspector • Goodsell stated that St. George’s lasi/ sentence was one of five years at Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions in October, 1932, for burglary.

In January this year he toll and broke his right log in three places. After lie had been in hospital three months ho was released by order of the Homo Secretary. Sir Herbert Wilherforce. the acting chairman, read a list of cases St. George had asked to be taken into account,' including: Breaking into the homo of Dame Alice Hodman, at Horsham, and stealing Maundy money worth lOd. Breaking into the homo of Sir Woo’d man Bur bridge, at Horsham, with intern t<> steal.

Breaking into Fay Gate 'Wood, Sussex, the home of Sir Claude Alexander, and stealing property worth £9B; and Breaking into the house of Sir Osmond d’Avigdor-Goldsmid, at Tonbridge, and stealing a. miniature and other articles. “Has he any'grudge pgainst the titled classes?” Sir Herbert asked Inspector Hood sell. “No,” replied, the officer. “It- is ’quality of the property he is after. He has given the police valuable help, and in nearly every case the property has been recovered.” Inspector Goodsell added that in the case at. Tonbridge suspicion fell on a maid, but because of St. George’s action in recovering the property the girl was reinstated. St. George from the dock said: “I have given my word to the police that this is my last case.” When St. George was sentenced' at St. Albans in 1932, he admitted stealing property valued at nearly A3COO, and pleaded guilty to four country house burglaries, asking for 2f> other cases <o be taken into consideration. The chairman said to him on that occasion. ‘‘Yon must be a hold and courageous man, because you seem to have com mitted all these burglaries apparently by yourself, which requires great nerve and skill.” In 1924, when St. George was convicted of a number of burglaries ill Surrey, he had been operating from a houseboat ou the River Wey, where he is said to have entertained friends on the proceeds of the burglaries.