"HONEST MAN DESPERATE”
police SUPPORT ru WINDOW-BREAKER DUTCHMAN’S BAD LUCK Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. •K was just a case of an honest an having neither job, money nor home, setting desperate. It is a case of real hard luck and far removed from the usual type that com es before your Worship.” This was part of the police evidence to-day, when Alexander Marinus Christinus Tuk, aged 59, described as a cook from Holland, was charged with wilfully breaking a pane of glass, valued at ss, the property of the New Zealand Government, and also with being an idle and disorderly person. Defendant had deliberately broken a window in the old post office, so that he might be arrested. He was ordered jo come up for sentence if called upon and the Salvation Army promised to care for him.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 394, 30 June 1928, Page 13
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