ANOTHER ADOLF BECK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81854, 1 October 1906, Page 3

ANOTHER ADOLF BECK.

Another Adolph Beck case has just been unearthed at London. Arthur Brooke, who has been released from Aimlcy Gaol. asserts that he the Press a *ctier, in whicn he says.carriage of justice, and has given to the Press a letter, in whihe h< says; "1 was tried and convicted ivi larceny last May assizes, at Leeds, and sentenced to a term of eighteen months imprisonment, although I strongly protested my innocence. Ic was a case of mistaken identity. Investigation? were caused by the Home Office to be made, with the resuh that facts were brought to light to fcati=>)\ them of my innocence, and that a great miscarriage of justice had been committed.'' A correspondent, who verified the above fans at the poiic station, states that the ferment v.apassed by Mr Jus'ice Ridley. Brooke - arrest was in connection wiLi a robbery from a man, who stated that h< had been pushed into a hou*- by tw; women. Brooke, to prove an a.ib: pummoner several witnesses Ijef-ji', the stipendiary magistrate, and the> asserted that he was at his sister in law's house when the robbeiy wacommitted. At the trial ihe*\\oniei] who wto his fellow-prisoners divulged, while Uiooko was on the \va> from the dock to the eel's, th* 1 name of the alleged real culprits. lit Justice Ridley, however, decided n< s to listen further to Brooke s protestations, and directed the sentence U proceed. While in prison. Brook' petitioned tlv Home Secretary. \vh instituted inquiries v'vh tin- abo\result.

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