By the Associated Press
San Francisco, April 22—John M. Gilroy was released today as an “honest robber.”
Gilroy told the jury he had been out of work, his wife ill, and his children hungry. He needed $6 so he took his revolver and held up the soft drink establishment of Wm. Moorman, taking the $6 from the till. He found work the next day and out of his first pay he paid Moorman the $6, then surrendered to the police.
The jury took a standing vote of acquittal.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, April 22, 1922
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