With feet clad in heavy bob-nailed boote, a fairiy big man. plodded up Weliirijton'e . principal street .on Saturday night*ndetatk>needliimslf outakie a. big plate-gltae window of a shop. Presently a policeman hove in sight, and this fact seelhed. to give peculiar joy to the suib-etantiaßy-boeted one. Whilst the con- ■ stable was eyeing him he raised one of' bis feet and deliberately shattered the window, which "was valued at £12.; "Now," he said to the officer of the Jaw, | "arrest mc; 1 want three months."! Little time elapsed before the man was under lock and key,- charged, with w3fuUy windows. Ik appears that he bad only doom owt of gaol on SKtarday, h*»«ng undergone a term of one monti-'e tmprieonment for emashing A window «n corporation property. ' He hed his wish gratified to some erWit when a sentence of two jnonStm , imyiieonment was imgoeed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 101, 29 April 1913, Page 7
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