LOOKING FOR ARREST
O.C. PALMERSTON N., July 26. A soldier, Walter Yearsley, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court yesterday to a charge of committing mischief by breaking the glass door of a jeAveller's shop. He explained, through counsel, that he had been called up for service in April last, and that his Avife, Avho was in poor health, had been left to look after their two children. She had found that she could not run the home and it was sold up. This had worried him, and thinking he would not again see his Avife if he went overseas, he conceived the idea of committing some trivial offence to get into the hands of the police. He wrote to his Avife telling her Avhat he proposed to do, and that evening, when he saAv a policeman 50 yards away, he broke the glass. He had served for seven' years in the Imperial Army, including service in India, and had an honourable discharge.
In fining him £10, and ordering him to pay the cost of the damage and prosecution, Mr. Justice Johnston told Yearsley he had been very foolish.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 7
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188LOOKING FOR ARREST Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 7
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