A VAGRANCY CASE.
10 THE EDITOR. Sir, —On perusing your issue of this evening I was painfully shocked to read that a poor, inoffensive old man had been sent to gaol for seven days for the heinous “dime” of trespassing on the railway yards for tlio purpose of warming himself in the sand pit. The poor fellow is by no means of the criminal typo, but is of the eccentric, tramp variety; is only 100 eager to work when work is procurable; but unfortunately, owing to heart trouble, is unable to do manual labor. Would it not have bean more in keeping with our boasted humauita’uVmism to have made an effort to uplift the poor soul instead of turning him loose with the stigma of gaol upon him-—a no reference for his “ precarious occupation of sharpening lawn mowers”? Yc gods, and wo send missionaries to China. —1 am, o(o., Astounded. November 23,
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Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 9
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152A VAGRANCY CASE. Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 9
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