It was sentence day in the city court. A man in tne prisoners’ pen who had been sentenced to two years for larcency, began to cry softly. The big man next to him, who was going to serve seven years for bigamy, said: “Aw, wotcher snifflin’ about?” “I’m —l’m—th-thinkin about leavin (sob) my—my—family. Lea-leavin’ my wife I ain’t cryin’ am I?, An’ I’m leavin’ two of ’em.”.
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Evening Star, Issue 20292, 28 September 1929, Page 2
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67Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 20292, 28 September 1929, Page 2
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