MONKEY THIEF
MAN WHO LIVED ON STATION ROOF. LONDON, Nov. 2. “He can board a train going at nearly express speed, and if there is nothing in the first waggon he searches, he can walk along the moving train from one waggon to another,” said Superintendent Rogers, of the L.N.E.R. police, when Walter Richards, aged 23, was sent to prison for a year at Gateshead yesterday on charges of stealing j from railway waggons. The superintendent told a remarkable story of Richards’ career, and described him as one of the most daring and expert thieves in the country. “He has been a source of trouble since he was 12 years of age,” said the officer. “At one time he lived on the roof of a station. For six weeks he was just like a monkey, and would climb down whenever he wanted anything. CookUng utensils were found on the roof [where he had been living.” Richards pleaded guilty to specific charges, and also to having stolen ! things at Blavdon and elsewhere.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20005, 23 November 1927, Page 2
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