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now sentenced him to serve a further term of ten 

 years' penal servitude." 



" Central Criminal Court. A Record of Crime. 

 A. D., aged sixty- four, pleaded guilty to stealing two 

 pipes of the value of 3, 153. The interest in this 

 case centred not so much in the facts of the present 

 offence, as in the previous career of the prisoner. 

 Mr. Warburton said he was a notorious criminal, and, 

 in a statement he had put in, he admitted having 

 spent about twenty-eight years of his life in prison. 

 Police witnesses were then called, and they stated 

 that in June 1886 the prisoner was convicted and 

 sentenced to eighteen years' penal servitude, but he 

 subsequently turned Queen's evidence, and the sentence 

 was commuted. Many other sentences of penal servi- 

 tude were also proved, from which it appeared, the 

 "Recorder observed, that the prisoner had passed forty 

 years of his life in penal servitude. His record was 

 one list of crime, and he must inflict upon him 

 a further sentence of five years' penal servitude." 

 March 10, 1891. 



" A curious case was heard at the Chester Quarter 

 Sessions yesterday, when J. D. E. pleaded guilty to 

 stealing a snuff-box and three spoons from the 

 Grosvenor Hotel, Chester, and three handkerchiefs 

 from a Chester outfitter. When arrested the prisoner 

 had in his possession 9$. The Eecorder, Sir 

 Horatio Lloyd, said that E. had been convicted ten 

 times before. For the past twenty-three years he 

 had been doing nothing but stealing and spending 

 his time in gaol. The Kecorder said he had not even 



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