NO WEDDING FOR BURGLAR
SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON. Remarking'“l dare'say the woman will be much happier,” Sir Montagu Sharpe refused to postpone sentence on a cat burglar at the Middlesex Sessions to enable the man to get married. The prisoner, Herbert Wilson, aged 3 , was described by the police as the most dangerous cat burglar who had appeared before the court for a long time. He pleaded guilty to three charges of housebreaking. and asked for 22 similar cases to be taken into consideration. . The proceeds of the burglaries were stated to be about £lOOO. In sentencing Wilson to seven years penal servitude, Sir Montague said: •“There are 46 serious cases in which you have been involved during your career. Think of the fright, anxiety and misery you have caused by intruding into these homes.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1933, Page 2
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