CHARGED WITH VAGRANCY.
When Herbert F. Atkins, aged 72, was charged in San Francisco recently With viagrancy — having heen found asleep in a doorway — ^he astonished Judge Oliver. Young by proving himself a masterly classical scholar. He spoke in Latin and Greek, and outlined complicated legal tbeories so fluently that the Judge dismissed the charge and invited Atkins to dine with him at his house. Atkins declared that he was the son of a titled Englishwoman and an American railway engineer. His mother had died at his birth in Afgh'anistan and his father was killed ih a native rising. His uncle had sent him to Oxford. Later he worked his way through Harvard and became Professor of International Law at Columbia University. Then he lost his memory in a train smash. Afterwards he got a job as gardener to a Galiforian doctor.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 623, 30 August 1933, Page 2
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142CHARGED WITH VAGRANCY. Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 623, 30 August 1933, Page 2
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