GIRL REFUSES RICH MAN’S AID.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1938, Page 14

GIRL REFUSES RICH MAN’S AID.

A great judge of the Criminal Courts remarked on the pathos of the case where a woman relative —“often it is a sister”—gives up her entire savings in order to make good a man’s theft, hoping thereby to save him from gaol. Tulie Moffat was prepared to do that for her brother, and it meant much more to her than it would have done to some women, for, since the death of her parents, she had been keeping together the young family, of whom the wayward brother was the eldest. The prosecution had been brought about by her brother’s employer, Ferris Rand, because young Moffat had stolen valuable plans and had sold them to a rival firm. Ferris Rand heard the plea of Julie Moffat for mercy, and listened to her offer of all the money she could raise. But he refused to be moved. The lad must.be punished; and to gaol he went.

The clash between this man and this woman, forms the theme of a remarkable human story, “THE PRISONER’S SISTER,” by Pearl Bellairs, which the WAIRARAPA TIMES-AGE has secured as its next serial. This fine story begins publication in the WAIRARAPA TIMES-AGE tomorrow.