A RECORD OF CRIME
EVIDENCE AGAINST A SOLDIER,
An extraordinary recoid of crin\e was unfolded when Charles TyrreL Davis, alias diaries Tyrol de Vandre, aged 20, described as a clerk, pleaded guilty tu stealing jewellery, valued at £±1, irom the house of Frances Stokes, at ltuddersfield. The prisoner's father, Captain Davis, who was in khaki, told (ho Court that' all his five sous ;luul good records of service with the colours. The prisoner had been twice in the trenches, was' a first-rate horseman, and considere'd tho second shot in the English Army. Except for "a horrible tendency to steal and being a consummate liar," he was an ideal man. Captain Moore, Chief Constable of Iluddersfield, said the prisoner was educated at Sidcup College, Kent. His army record was very irregular. He was married at Lewisham Registry Office in 1917, but deserted his wife a few dajs later. He had committed thefts in the Derby and Matlock districts, at Carlisle, Glasgow, and. Edinburgh. He was at present, serving a sentence of nine months' imprisonment for stealing i'JW 10s. from tho IT.M.C.A. at Pembroke. Sentence of twelve months' hard labour was passed.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 254, 22 July 1919, Page 4
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190A RECORD OF CRIME Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 254, 22 July 1919, Page 4
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