HIS “ROTTEN LUCK."

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 20 October 1916, Page 3

HIS “ROTTEN LUCK."

“PINCHED” ON HIS WEDDING DAY AND BIRTHDAY. No fewer than 21,840 articles, mostly false teeth, were included in a charge against Richard Alfred SaitHouse, aged thirty-one, of Little Essex Street, Hoxton, of breaking anc entering a dental manufacturer’s shop at 57, Edgware Road, belonging to John Taylor and Co. A lad of seventeen, namd Albert Finch, said that while he was staying Salthouse’s house Salthouse himself w r ent out, saying he was “going to look for a show.” That night the lad went Avith Salthouse and his wife to Edgware Road. Salthouse pushed open the fanlight over the prosecutor’s door with his Avalking-stick, cut the rope that held it, and, Avheh at: was clear, climbed in through the aperture. Then, at a signal from his Avifo, he climbed out Avith his pockets full. Detective-Sergeant Gray stated that he arrested Salthouse at his house. “We Avere hard up,” he said, “and I sent her to sell the teeth last Friday.” But he denied stealing anything beyond the teeth. He adder: that he had had “rotten luck, ” for the last time he “got pinched” Avas on his wedding-day, and that day Avas his birthday. His Avife had become a mother that morning. At Marylebone Police Court a remand Avas ordered.