AMAZING CRIME CAREER
SYDNEY YOUTH'S EPISODES
UNUSUAL intelligence:
APPLIED!
The amazing crime, career of a 1(> year old youth Avho applied unusual intelligence to the scientific study of safe was revealed in a Sydney Court. The youth, George Edgar Robinson, was sentenced to three, years' imprisonment on ten charges of breaking and entering- A companion, John Russell, aged 17, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on two charges of breaking and entering.
The story unfolded in Court was that Robinson went to a public library and studied books on the use of explosives so that lie could embark on a career of safe blowing. He then took part in the theft of a large quantity of explosives from a Sydney warehouse. In experimenting with the explosives Russell lost his left hand. The theft of the explosives, was followed by a wave of safe blowing on Sydney business premises. About this time for other misdemcanoiu's( Robinson and Russell were sent to a reform institution, from which they absconded. Robinson had in his possession £/00, the proceeds of robberies, which he hid in a jar. The money was stolen from him by one of his mates. Robinson and Russell then travelled from Sydney to Melbourne, stealing a number of cars and blowing a safe on the way. When police attempted to the pair in Melbourne they jumped from a height of loft from a window and escaped. Later they but | were caught.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 50, 20 February 1945, Page 2
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240AMAZING CRIME CAREER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 50, 20 February 1945, Page 2
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