REAL JEKYLL AND HYDE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 26 June 1913, Page 6

REAL JEKYLL AND HYDE.

THIEF WHO TAUGHT IN SUNDAY SCHOOL. Whoa Walter Thomas, an Insurance agent, Classon avenue, New YorK, was arraigned before Judge o'Sullivan, in Part V. of General Sessions, for sentence on a conviction of burglary, the usual biographical questions were put to him, and ho .said iJiat ho had never before been convicted. Judge O'Sullivan then handed hi in a letter from Scotland Yard, Lo\don, containing a description of lumseti, along witii a photograph and slating that lie had served several terms is English penal institutions. He also handed Thomas a letter from tie warden of the Illinois State Petnfan.Uary at Joliet (III,), also containing a photograph and description of him, and saying that he had served a tcim there for felony. Thomas broke down after reading the two letters, and admitted that they . were true. He was arrested the last time on February 2, in the Transit Buildings, No. 5 East Fortysecond street, by James Darren, tne superintendent of the building, who turned him over to Detective VanTwistern, of the East Fifty-first street ( station, charging him With having j robbed a number of the offices in U'e i

building. Ho was tried recently, and j his remarkable criminal bent, coupled with a liking for respectable society and companionship, was brought out. —A Jekyll and Hyde.— After sentencing hiimto a straight term of four and a-lialf years in Sing Sing, Judge O'Sullivan said to Thomas, "Yours is one of the strangest cases J that has ever come before this Court, i On six days of the week you were an honest, industrious, conscientious citizen, a Dr. Jekyll, earning a good I salary, and .associating with decent i people, and on the seventh day that , you were brought up to revere you I were aMr Hyde. You devoted the | morning of that day to God, teach- j ing in a Sunday school, and instructing young people as to the ways they should tread. But in the afternoin and the evening of that Sabbath day you devoted your time to stealing. You are one man in a million. Go- j

ing to prison with the 'gocfd-will of those that believe you, despite the fact that you are a hardened criminal, you succeeded in drawing to you a cultured, refined.young woman. She , , Avas willing to marry you, and has written me and begged of me to give you a suspended sentence in order .that, she- may. marry you. {She be•liexffes that her influence wojild have a reformatory effect upon y&j, but 1 do not see it in that-tyght.-, Jou. have . thrown a shadow across "her life' that will remain for ever.!' , (1 . J Whe*n Thomas was arrested he had in his possession SOdoL worth of postage stamps and 42d01. in cash, a screwdriver, and a "jemmy" of peculiar make, Avhich the experts at police headquarters said was a distinctly English implement. Because of the i 'discovery 'of this 'English '.'jemmy," ' Scotland Yard was communicated with, < and a" description of Thomas was sent < to America. i* :;