United States or Montenegro ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
His disposition was to bite the hand that fed him. After being well treated by Sir Horace Fewbanks he had made up his mind to rob him as he had robbed his former master Lord Melhurst. He knew that Sir Horace had quarrelled with this girl Fanning because of her association with Birchill, and he went to Birchill and put before him a proposal to rob Riversbrook.
I ask you to regard both stories as the evidence of a man who is too deeply implicated in this crime to be able to speak the truth. "I will prove to you, gentlemen of the jury, that the man is a criminal by instinct and a liar by necessity the necessity of saving his own skin. He robbed his former master, Lord Melhurst, and he planned to rob his late master, Sir Horace Fewbanks.
Police photographs taken in gaol for purposes of future identification are always far from flattering, and Henry Field, after looking at the photograph handed to him, hesitated a little before replying: "Yes, sir." "So, Henry Field, in November 1909 you were sentenced to three years for robbing your master, Lord Melhurst." "Yes, sir."
"Let me see," said the inspector, as if calling on his memory to perform a reluctant task. "It was a diamond scarf-pin and a gold watch. Lord Melhurst had come home after a good day at Epsom and a late supper in town. Next morning he missed his scarf-pin and his watch. He thought he had been robbed at Epsom or in town.
Word Of The Day