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Friday, April 22, 2022

'Honest Robber' Acquitted at Trial, April 22, 1922

An Honest Robber. . . Paid Back Soft Drink Man He Robbed as Soon as He Got a Job

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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