TEARS OF REMORSE IN DOCK

NZ Truth, Issue 1214, 7 March 1929, Page 1

TEARS OF REMORSE IN DOCK

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Representative) WITH heavy sobs and trembling voice, Herbert Arthur Morris pleaded guilty at the Dunedin Police Court when charged with the theft of a gold watch valued at £5, the property of Professor Bell. . r • ° Details given to Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., by Chiefdetective Cameron showed that Morris had been employed' cleaning the windows of the professor's residence, and, seeing the watch lying on a table inside a room, took possession of it. , From the dock, Morris, m tears, stated that since May last, when he was dismissed from the fire brigade owing to his getting married and there being no accommodation for married couples at the station he had found it hard to make a livijng for himself, wife and child. His wife had been ill since Christmas, and he had taken on window-cleaning on his own account. He was given a chance, being placed on probation for twelve months.