POET GOES TO GAOL
" I STEAL WHAT I CAH '* Charged on remand at Reading, Eng* land, recently with stealing a/ bicycle,Michael Devaney, aged 74/ an Irishman, read the following to the Bench:— I’m poor .Michael Devaney, of n® fixed abode— • Either in prison or else, on the road. I walk round the country and steal what I can. Own up to my faults like a tru® Irishman. . Bo here in the court at Reading today, But where in a short time I really can’t say— Perhaps in Oxford Gaol for all £ know. , . Praise God, from Whom all blessing! flow. Asked by the chairman, Mrs A. Jenkins, why he stole, Devaney replied, A have to. get something by hook or by crook, and what. I can’t £ will endeavour to wheel away. , Superintendent Osborn stated that Devaney had 38 convictions. Devaney was sentenced to three months’ hard labour, and will serve the sentence in Oxford Gaol.
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Evening Star, Issue 22456, 29 September 1936, Page 12
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154POET GOES TO GAOL Evening Star, Issue 22456, 29 September 1936, Page 12
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