AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE
"For some time pa6t this man has been knocking about the streets, apparently doing nothing, and last evening he was unfortunate enough to accost a constable, who was then in plain clothes, and request a small favour, a shilling or so," said Inspector Marsack to Captain Hennah and Mr. J. W. Ellison, J.P.s, at the Magistrate's Court this morning, when a man named Joseph Henry Francis Donnelly was brought before them and charged with being an incorrigible rogue, in that he had begged alms in Cambridge-terrace, and had been previously convicted as a rogue and vagabond. Donnelly admitted having solicited ahps, but made a statement that the wet weather' had driven him in from the' back country, where he had been scrub-cutting, and by some means he had lost practically all his money. "I have never had a chance given me before," he concluded. "I see you have fourteen previous convictions against you," replied Mr. Ellison. "You at least seem to have a good list of chances missed." Donnelly was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on, on condition that he left the town at once.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 31, 6 August 1919, Page 7
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193AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 31, 6 August 1919, Page 7
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