It cost more than ordinary lodging but it was worth it, because if the police made any inquiries the landlord or his wife would always give wrong information.

I went to this place because I intended committing a burglary at Muswell Hill with a man who was released from gaol two or three days before me, who knew the crib and asked me, when we were at work one day, if I would go in with him on the job.

I thought there might be a chance of getting away with the stuff, if I could get somebody to swear that I hadn't left the house that night.
"I told the landlord I had a job on the 14th and gave him L1.

I saw Mr.
Lyne on the 14th at his house and put the idea up to him.

I showed him the vitriol which I had bought in the Waterloo Road and he said he would not hear of my doing it.