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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2492, 5 January 1887, Page 2

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(fiie 'Pall Mall Gazette' state! |ivard Tayler, aixfcy-tliree years I U indicted at the Middlesex Sea | September 16, for stealing a| Utile sum cf sixpence, the propel zabeth Winter. The prosesutrj ins in an omnibus when the pij iin. He had at the time a large! Ik, which was covered with a je embroidered cloth. He sat r prosecutrix, and placed the my on her Jap and his own knee fcjhe was enabled to move his ijsrneath without being noticed | <M: passengers. He took fro Ib ,, i pocket her purse, which onl t|el sixpence. A lady, a w w> 'Bat immediately opposite li for attention drawn to the p bjiuje he stared her full in the faci hbohmitted the robbery, Theoi iw slapped, and the prisoner was in custody. The jury foundjiim Dfcctive-sei'geant Record etatec A inquiries he had made he four Iprisoner had done. nothing eli wdev passengers in oranibusses ;tjk number of years. He was an lil, and well known all ov< i opolis. It is his custom bo ■ i round, or rather routo, over] it. The Judge said he was 1 9 'an old man like the ; tudo, but his conduofc had hi a hat he felt constrained to do st x ordered him to bo kept ir five years.