BENEFACTOR ROBBED
AN ORPHAN'S INGRATITUDE “ We should like to be as nice to you as your uncle has been, but I am afraid we can’t. You have been an ungrateful lad, and the only way to teach you that your ways are wrong is to punish you.” The chairman of the Highgate magistrates made this comment to Albert Freeman, aged 22, who pleaded guilty to embezzling money from his uncle, and was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Freeman, it was stated, was employed in his uncle’s coal office in London, and absconded with £4O. On arrest he told the police a doctor had said he was suffering from tuberculosis. “ It preyed on my mind, and I decided to have a good time to forget all about it,” he went on, and added that he went to Blackpool and spent the £4O on amusements.” The uncle said that when the youth’s parent died three years ago he took him and his brother to live with him. Freeman was employed on the local wharf at a wage of £4 a week. “ But,” declared the uncle, “he got too big for me and went away.” Later he wrote asking to be taken back, and he was taken back. “ I can do no more for him,” said the uncle. Asked how Freeman’s brother was behaving, the uncle replied : “ Oh, lie’s a nice kid, but this one has had more than enough chances.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 11
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238BENEFACTOR ROBBED Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 11
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