DISHONEST DETECTIVE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13661, 27 March 1908, Page 5

DISHONEST DETECTIVE.

A PILFERER OF LUGGAGE. SERIOUS THEFTS £N A RAILWAY,^ 1. . ' ' ' '. *S By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. < LONDON,. March 26, •{ Brooks, a London and North-Wostern* railway detective, wh,o.wnß found in; possession of thirty-one s*kelet6n keys, ai jemmy, and a file for altering keys, has' been sentenced to ,three years' impris-. ■ onment for ( several robberies on the line between Llandiidno and Wolves-* hampton. , >' \ The Court ordered" the company to, pay £600, value of jewels lost on that', section. „,..•,• •'■* ~* Brooks travelled itt the same corridor < of the train as the owner of the jewels!. 3 Five porters and a clerk have also.; be,en arrested for the robberies at Eus-^ Stolen goods to the value of £350 i have been recovered.