A RECORD OF CRIME.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151036, 30 July 1919, Page 2

A RECORD OF CRIME.

EVIDENCE AGAINST A FINE SOLDIER. An cxtraordinarv record of crime was unfolded when . Charles Tyrell Davis, alias Charles Tyrol de Vandre, ! aged 20, described as a clerk, pleaded guilty to stealing jewellery, valued at £22, from the house of Frances i stokes, at Huddersfield. The prisoner's father, Captain Davis, who was in khaki, told the court that all his five sons had good records of service with the. colours. The prisoner had been twice in the trenches, was a. first-rate horseman, and considered the second shot in the English army Except (for "a horrible tendency to steal and being a consummate liar " ne was an ideal man. Captain Moore, Chief Constable of jduddersfield, said the prisoner was educated at Sidcup College, Kent. He J"J? married at Lewisham Registry Office in 1917, but deserted his wife a lew days later. He had committed thefts m the Derby and- Matlock districts, at Carlisle, Glasgow, and Edinourgii. ii-e was at p res e n t serving a sentence .of m no months' impris'onl^J 0. 1' stealing. £44 • 10s from the' .^•M.C.A. at Pembroke. ■bentenee of 12 months' hard labour was passed. '