FINE PAID BY GOOD SAMARITAN
Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONDON, August 15. Ilarry Btevclman, the 18-year-old costernionger who recently was tlnsubject of Parliamentary questions when he was sentenced to six months ' imprisonment after he failed to pay an £80 line for solling oranges at fourpenc.e a pound above the controlled price, walked out of Wormwood Scrubs prison a i'ree man only a few hours after he entered it. Ilis line was paid by Mr Nornian Iiurst, an Oxford Streei jeweller who had never seen iStevelman Mr. Iiurst, who said he sp ent' 24 hours in prison himself for failing to pay. a fine during the depressioh, said ne "couldn't bear to see kids-in trouble". and had offered to back iStevelman in setting up his own business if he would kecp straight. "I did not know they. had cavaliers any more these days," was the eoinment of the warder who re leased Stevelman.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 August 1947, Page 5
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