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FORMER CONSTABLE'S CRIMES. Once a member of Durham Constabulary, from which he was dismissed because of a conviction for shopbreaking, John Bertie McAvoy Gibb subsequently worked as a motor-driver during the day, and committed burglaries and thefts at night. Gibb’s ultimate capture, as related at the Appeal Court by Lord Hewart, was a thrilling affair, for the occupier of a burgled house and his son tackled Gibb as he was escaping with the "swag,” and in the struggle which ensued all three fell through a window. Eleven charges of burglary and housebreaking were proved against the ex-policeman, who admitted five other similar cases. Gibb was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Gibb is 34, and, remarked Lord Hewart, it was time his energetic career of crime was brought to an abrupt end. The sentence passed on him was more than deserved, and his appeal would be dismissed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 3
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150MORE THAN DESERVED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 3
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