The "old shepherd of Dartmoor," who, according to Mr. Lloyd
George's statement at Mile End, was serving a sentence of thirteen years' penal servitude for stealing two shillings from a poor boy, has shown a strange lack of consideration
for his benefactors. Released by order of the Home Secre- Bank Rate, 4 per cent., changed from 5 per cent. Dec. 1st.
tary on January 6th, he was sent to a situation found Consols (2i) were on Friday 791—Friday week 79i.
for him by the prison authorities near Wrexham, having stipulated that he would not leave his new position for six months except with the consent of the Home Office. On Sunday, the 8th, or two days afterwards, he left without permission, and has not since been heard of. The man, it may be remembered, had been convicted as an habitual criminal, who had spent thirty-three years in prison, and was sentenced under the Prevention of Crime Act of 1908 to a sentence of three years' penal servitude and ten years' preventive detention.
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