KEPT HIS PROMISE
A CRIMINAL REFORMED Lady Cynthia Colville, Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Mary, has led one of the underworld’s most skilful burglars from crime to restitution. The other day Ernest X., whose personal file in Scotland Yard’s Rogues’ Gallen’ is one of the bulkiest, walked into his basement room in Shoreditch, and flung a newspaper on the ground. “I’m going to join up,” he said to his pale, drawn wife. When Lady Cynthia first met Ernest he was an expert “blower.” cracking safes all over the country. Regularly she dropped in to see him. She helped him to find a job as a labourer and he promised her he would never go back to crime. He worked hard and long. To-day Ernest is still a labourer, but he is working in dungarees to help the country in which he was once a pariah.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21555, 18 January 1940, Page 8
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