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He understood the risk. At 101, he told the court he would accept whatever punishment came his way. Even when pressed to offer some word in his own defense, he refused, determined to protect something he valued more than his own freedom.
A Neighbor’s Promise Broken
Just as sentencing seemed imminent, Margaret Daly stood and insisted the judge could not send Walter to prison. She told the court she had lived next door to him for thirty years and knew exactly why he had taken those items.
Walter turned to her, pleading with her to honor the promise she’d made. But Margaret could no longer stay silent. She told the judge she had kept his secret for months, and that there was something he needed to see before passing sentence.
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The story Margaret revealed stretched back months, to a time when she had been away and Walter had fallen seriously ill. A struggling single mother named Sarah Mitchell noticed something was wrong at his home and found him helpless in bed.
