On Burglars
W. 8. Gilbert, in a letter to the Ixmdon Timos, says :— r" For my part, X could never quite understand the prejudice against burglars. An unarrested burglar gives employment to innumerable telegraph clerks, police officers, railway officials^ and, possibly also to surgeons, coroners, undertakers, ■ and monumental masons. As boob, as- he is in custody, the services of a whole ajrmy •of soHcitorSj.barxjfters, judges, grand and petty jurymen, reporters, o^yernors of goals and prison waviera are called intorequi-fiition..-;Rea%-the burglar does more -good iUaa harm.'' Mr Gilbert forgetsaliabout flic taxpayers who pay the piper while all these folks dance.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 76, 5 December 1885, Page 3
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99On Burglars Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 76, 5 December 1885, Page 3
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