DEBONAIR BURGLAR.
FIVE YEARS IN GAOL. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT LONDON, Dec. 3. A. amazing career is ascribed to a Raffles-like burglar, Arthur Wilkinson, who was convicted of robbing country houses in the Thames Valley, and has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment. The conviction of Wilkinson was due to the detectives’ discovery of part of a wooden matchbox in a house that had been rc.bbed. The remainder of the box was in Wilkinson’s pocket. Wilkinson, who was released in March, after .serving a sentence for burglary, posed as a man of independent means. He lived at West End hotels, played bowls and cricket, and entertained the local police and actresses on a houseboat on the Thames. He left, a police party and immediately committed a burglary.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 December 1924, Page 5
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127DEBONAIR BURGLAR. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 December 1924, Page 5
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