Driven to Theft by Starvation.
A sorrowful story of destitution was told in a Sydney Police Court recently, when a man was charged with stealing a quilt, valued at Bs. Accused, with his wife, had been lodging for gome time with the prosecutor, and vainly endeavoring to get work. All his belongings had one by one been pawned to provide food. On Saturday night the man had no food in the house, and the wife washed two of her husband's shirts, which he took to a pawnbroker, who refused to advance on them "because they were still wet, and in desperation the man returned to the house, took a quilting and pawned it, intending to replace it during the week on pawning his dried Bhirts. The landlord, however, discovered the pawning of the quilt and gave him into custody. The Bench, in view of the extenuating circumstances, sentenced the man to imprisonment till the rising of the Court. —Post.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 278, 29 May 1895, Page 3
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