NO WEDDING BELLS!
"MUST DON THE. PRISON GARB." ; Upon being found guilty in the Criminal Court at Melbourne recently of false pretences Gferiite Robert Beore made an impassioned appeal to Judge Cox for morey. : i In tearful.strains, ho said:— I only tried to right,;and have always fallen in aiid now! am a convicted thief, and swear before heaven and-the world not with guilty intention; I havo lost my parents and friends. I had • twd brothers-who wbro found dead in tho -streets, and my lister-is in an asylum, and now I am a'.oonvicted thief.. During tho past "week's -I -havo bSeii in gaol consorting with murderer's" and 'riibn who havo tried to assault mo. I was to"havo been maiiied 011 tho first of tho. month to a girl who was to come into £200. 1 The..wedding bolls will not ring out now- The wedding dress is roady, and the feast is ready, and tho song rejoicing is turned to one.of lamentation. \our Honour will remember that the bridegroom niust don' the prison-dress instead of tho nothing left to hang 011 to life 'fdrl"::'.'/-,! ; Beero was: sentenced to twelvo months' imprisonment.:
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 275, 13 August 1908, Page 4
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189NO WEDDING BELLS! Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 275, 13 August 1908, Page 4
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