MODEL HUSBAND

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 444, 27 May 1937, Page 2

MODEL HUSBAND

SERVED THE MEALS Also Made Coins London, May 5 I Ex-Da'tectdve Charles Holdaway, of the C.1.D., aged 57, was. a model husband. While his wife lay desperately ill in their flat in Castle Hill, Dover, he iserved ths ipelals, washed up, did all the housework. His wife, halfparalysed, could net move,from her bed. Unknown to her, in the next room to where she lay were counterfeit coins and moulds. There her exJdietective huEband spent his spare time. He was sentenced at 'the Old Bailey to nine months’ imprisonment for possessing moulds for coining. Townspeople had complained to the police about the number of bad silver coins circulating in the town. Detectives visited Holdawlay’s flat, found him and the moulds l . Holdaway had to think quickly. “The Colonel.” This is what he said: “1 do not know anything about them. I do not know the name of the man who comes here. I know he has been mucking about with coins for a fortnight. “I know him as ‘The Colonel.’ He is about forty years of age and has a scar on the right side ct his face. You w’ill find him in ihe market.” “The Colonel” could not be found'. But w r hait the police did 'discover was that Holdaway, in the brief time he had to explain about the moulds, had described a fellow-prisoner during his previous term of imprisonment—a ml:i.n who was still in gaol. Holdaway has been, convicted eeven times before. In 1932 he was sentenced' at the Old Bailey to five years’ penal' servitude' for obtaining money by false pretences and conspiracy to defraud. He was released on license last July. He joined the MetropolrlLtn Police in 1901, wa a later attached to the C..1.D., was returned to 'the uniformed branch for disciplinary offences, and 'Citsmissed from the service in 1908 for unsatisfactory conduct He has lived in Dover for 19 years, and hae been out of work for about five years. Rotih Holdawlay and his v. ife had been previously marrie the family consisting of five children three girls and two boys. The youngest girl has just left school.