Page 5 Advertisements Column 2

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3084, 5 January 1909, Page 5

There have been many lazy men, but few to equal Archibald Dehan, of Suffolk Place, West Green, who was accused at Tottenham recently of neglecting his four children, says the London "Daily Express." Mrs Dehan said her husband had done no work for fourteen months, although he had been offered employment. "Instead of looking for work he lies in bed until all hours of the day," she stated. "Once he stayed in bed for three months, although nothing was wrong with him. I have tried to persuade him to bestir himself, and [ have even dragged him out of the bed, but he went back to it again. One day I took him a letter , containing an offer of employment. ! He read it, and said he would not go out until the next day as it was raining. When he was offered another situation he stated he could not take it until he obtained a new set of teeth and had his hair dyed. He was in the workhouse in the early part of this year. After he came out he took to his bed again, and remained there for a week." "I suffer from insomnia," Dehan pleaded in an injured tone. "Nobody can expect to sleep all the twenty-four I hours of the day," remarked the magistrate drily, in sentencing him to six months' hard labour.