SIX WINDOWS BROKEN.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20806, 16 March 1933, Page 3

SIX WINDOWS BROKEN.

LABOURER COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. j - j (WIEBB A33OCJVHOJ* TBLEOtiM ) WELLINGTON, March 10. "I Jost'iny head and did something desperate. I must have been mad. Starvation lia3 driven me that way," said John Male, a labourer, aged G3, in tho Magistrate's Court to-day to explain his action in breaking six plate-glass windows in tho premises of the Union Clothing Company, Cuba street, about 10 p.m. on Friday. After breaking tho windows tho accused was taken to the police station, where in 'a voluntary statement, he said ho was an unemployed labourer. He had been . | refused sustenance that week becau.se I he bad not paid his levy, and he had broken ihe windows in order to fret ft j feed. He had had onlv four meals that week. He was quite sober. From the dock, tho accused, in pleading E.uilty, reiterated the statement ho had made to the police. Ho said ho had been paid 7s Gd a Week previously, but on Friday, when he werti to the Labour Bureau, he had been refused. Male was committed to the Sunremo Court for sentence on a ehnrge of mmmrttincs mischief bv wilfully breaking six winflows valued at £l3B.