THE SUICIDE OF A REALLY GREAT THIEF.
By the death of Plymouth White, at Reading, Vermont, American citizens with any money to lose hare gained in security, but tha world has lost one of the most notable thieves who ever won a place in the Temple of Pave. White was qnite worthy of ranking with Turpin, Paul Clifford, and other celebrated purseemptlers; nod he 'waa, if anything, more of the fine gentleman'than any of them, He began hie career by the daring feat of selling a cartload of send for £IOO,OOO as gold dust, and a few years afterwards, while in temporary confinement, he succeeded in swindling the Sheriff himself out of £4ooo a atoiy of genius unparalleled in the history of crime. The total amount resulting from hie “industry” during a somewhat chequered life is said to have reached the sum of more than I.hOO.OOOdols. He was a polygamist, and yu generally taken fsr a Protestant parson. JSow he hsscommitted suicide, and has opened op a rare new field lor the penny novelist,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1312, 11 August 1886, Page 2
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174THE SUICIDE OF A REALLY GREAT THIEF. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1312, 11 August 1886, Page 2
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