City Judge J. G. Mitchell, of Santa Ana, Californa, has devised a new method to make the “punishment fit the crime.” Recently Judge Mitchel sentenced a motorist to pay £3O for a traffic law violation. The accused admitted the violation, but pleaded that he was busy while a friend of his, who owed him some money, was not. "Let my friend work out my fine,” pleaded the motorist. The Judge agreed. The friend went to work in the city park.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1938, Page 5
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