THE GREATEST CURSE.
At Sydney a few days ago, Mr Justioe Pring, in dealing with a young man at the Central Criminal Couit, who had pleaded guilty to embezzling £lO2l, the property of the Commercial Banking Company, said the accused had given way to what his Honour described, sitting there Borne eight or nine months ago, as the greatest curse to the community "There is hardly a newspaper you pick up," - said the Judge, "but in it you see that some young man has been brought to his downfall in one State or another by yielding to the cursed fascination of betting." "You talk about drink," his Honor went on. "It is not responsible for half the crime that gambling and betting are." Ruined live* and mourning wives and mothers, were the result. '•What about your poor mother?" said the judge, addressing the prisoner, "whom you have brought disgrace upon because you would not refrain from this pernicious habit? Seeing that'you were a good boy until you wished to become rich without working for it, I will make the sentence as light as I can and I implora you that when you get out you will never indulge in gambling or anything of the kind that will bring you in money without honest labour."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7933, 5 January 1906, Page 5
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214THE GREATEST CURSE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7933, 5 January 1906, Page 5
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