MOWS VETERAN'S FALL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 13

MOWS VETERAN'S FALL

STOLE BOTTLES TO LIVE A FINE WAR RECORD Press Association. W r AIM ATE .Tuesday. A story of deep distress was told by James Bell, a veteran of Mons, v.dio pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a. cordial factory and stealat S 4s° Ur doZen em Pty bottles valued ho^ CCUS ®S' a bottle gatherer, said he had a wife and two children. He had found business dull in Oamaru, and had come to Waimate, but owing to firms to which he sent bottles delaving payment, he had been able to keep only his wife and children, living himself on bread and His wife had written for money, and bottlls tD helP himself to empty Accused said he had been in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for 11 vears He was four times wounded, Ind wa= promoted corporal by Sir Douglas F ais S° r bravery - He was mentioned ®, ve ti mes ln despatches and held the Mons Medal with laurels the Military Medal with two’bars and the French Medal Militaire. He was recommended by seven different QuenUn the Victoria Cross at St Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.