GRIPPLED FOR LIFE.
BURGLAR’S UNLUCKY. LEAP. Crippled for life as a result of jumping l from a bedroom window when endeavouring to escape arrest, James Brady, aged 72, slater, was treated mercifully at A London court lately, when he hobbled into the dock on crutches and was charged with breaking into a house. It was stated that the occupier, of the house, finding the front door-had been tampered with, sent for the police. Prisoner was discovered on a concrete path outside with one arm and leg broken, and an injury to the left eye which cost him his sight. His
pockets contained articles stolen from the 1 house. It appeared that when the occupier of the house switched on the electric light, he turned on the light in an upper room, in which the prisoner happened to be.
This frightened Brady, who attempted a hurried exit by way of the window, expecting to drop on to the earth of the garden. In falling he falling he struck his eye on the sill. Many previous convictions were proved against Brady, who received four sentences of seven years’ penal servitude between 1876 and 1903. A dealer in Caledonian road market offered to take care of the old man, and pleaded that his return to crime followed o.n being in arrears with his rent. The court bound Brady over.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 252, 30 August 1928, Page 2
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