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Show Real Jekytl and Hyde. Houoat by day and burglar by night wnB James Coombs, a man ot tho Jokyll and Hydo typo, who, at Southampton South-ampton pleaded guilty to several charges of burglary and one of unlawfully unlaw-fully wounding. Somo hundreds of keys wore found ln tho prisoner's house, and so numerous were tho sto len nrtlclos they had to bo removed ln a van. Coombs used to preach at Methodist chapels and Salvation Army moetings In tho district. By day ho worked on the docks and at nlghf burgled, chiefly unoccupied houses. In defense It was urged that the prisoner's prison-er's nets nmounted to monomania on his part, and that he led two lives, one respoctablo and tho other criminal Tho Judge said the prisoner was a danger to society, and might havo done well If ho bad applied his Ingenuity In-genuity 'to better directions. A sentence sen-tence ot three years' penal servitude was passed. - ... . . |