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NZ Truth, Issue 101, 25 May 1907, Page 6

It may toe that why some bishops are called okl women is because they wear aprons. Awdy Badcock was the curious cognomen attached to an old man who cam:; before the S.M. Court at Dunedin a few 'days ago. The old chap was over seventy years of age,i and had bieon an inmate of the Benevolent tostitution, and had departed thonce because he supposed he coukl do .'better for himself elsewhere. However, he had gone farther and fared worse, and it was to prevent Mm from dying on the pitiless streets that the police "shot him m." He was deemed to 'be an idle and disorderly person. The magistrate convicted him of the offence, but merely ordered him to come up for sentence when wanted, on tire under stand ins; that be would return to his former place of abode ( to wit, the Old Men's Home.,