THE FILM AND THIEF
A HACKNKYED DEFENCE,
Counsel at tho Sydney quarto session, in pleading for Albert William Go/eu, a 17-year-old youth, who Lad admitted having broken and entered a dwelling with intent to steal, Raid, "It is a matter of tho picture shows." Judge Backhouse, retorted: "Tbo picture shows seem to have beon mndo Hie stock-in-trade- of thieves and rogues. A police officer wiid that the boy hart been reading books recounting tho daredevil doings of'desperadoes. Ho was very clevor at inventions. Evidence was given tiiaf tlie boy had modelled a steam engine and hnd invented other things. Ho was regarded as a genius-too much of a, genius, in fact. At times he appeared eccentric. _ Another witness was asked: Do you know that lie attended picture shows P" ■Ttidgo Backhouse: Don't run the enow business to death. I go to picture shows occasionally, but I etill appear on the honch.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 186, 26 April 1918, Page 5
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151THE FILM AND THIEF Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 186, 26 April 1918, Page 5
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