SAVED BY RABBI’S PLEA
MAN WHO NEVER HAD A CHANCE An eloquent plea by a rabbi saved a mail from a sentence of five years’ penal servitude at Durham Quarter Sessions. George Day, 35, pleaded guilty to obtaining food and lodging by false pretences, and asked that 12 other charges should be taken into consideration. Day was said to have obtained accommodation on the plea that his motor-car had broken down, and that the governor of Durham prison, who he said was his personal friend, was unable to put him up. Pleading for Day, the rabbi, Mr. Muscat, said that if he was given a short sentence there was work for him at Sunderland . Day had complained to him that he had netvgr had a chance. Sir Francis Greenw’ell said they had intended to sentence Day to five years’ penal servitude. They would now give him six months’ hard labour, but if he came back he would get ten years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 617, 20 March 1929, Page 11
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160SAVED BY RABBI’S PLEA Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 617, 20 March 1929, Page 11
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