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THE DARTMOOR
SHEPHERD.
ARRESTED FOR IIOUSEBREAEIKQ.
LONDON'April 4.
David* Danes, Mr. Winston Churchill's
'Dartmoor Shepherd,' has, stepped into the
limelight again. An old convict released
'on trial,' Duvies luul been lost to the vigi
JttOt eye of the police fur nonie weeku, but
now he has been arrested for bousebreak
jug at Otwestry, in Shropshire. .
Members of t.he House of Commons ironi
cally cheered the Home Secretary when it
was made known that the Minister's proba
tioner had been found again, and at his
old practices.
' La# month Mr. Winston Churchill found
himself subjected in the House of Com
mons by young UnioninU to annoying ques
tions concerning the whereabouts of an
'old shepherd ot Dartmoor,' David Dsiviw,
a convict in whom the Hume Secretary
took particular interest. Apparently, all
that Mr. Churchill could reply was that the
man, a day after his release from prison
cn condition that he remained for at least
m months in a filiation provided for him
near Wrexham, secretly left the place, and
that the police had since been unable to
find him. In order to justify hin own offi
cial conduct, the Home Secretary did the
ex-prLsoner the honour of writing his bio
griiphy. and saying main- things in his fa
vour. Davies'.s case was lir.st brought un
der notici! by Mr. Llojd-tieorw in his fa
nielli Mile-F.iid speech. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer described a chance meeting
with Davits, whom he represented as a vic
tim of class u-pprc.-t-ioii. Enquires elicited
that of hw 07 yeans of life Davics had
piujsed 3S in gaol, and hi* sentences aggre
gated 51 year.'. Hi.- last sentence was one
of three years' penal servitude, and 10
years of private detention, for the theft of
2/. In prison he \va.- always a model of
iiood behaviour — contented and even happy.
At the Dartmoor establishment lie had
chaise of a flock of sheep. Ho loved the
animak. and took the utmost care of them.
He never drove them, but called them by
names, and led them about, in Oriental
fusion.
The Eastern Extension, Australasia, and
China Telegraph Company, Limited reports
that' the latest telegram from Adelaide
which arrived in London up to 10 a.m. on
April 5. was timed 5.10 p.m. on |he same
day. The time occupied in transit was lh.
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