CONVICTED MAN’S REFORM

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 July 1934, Page 3

CONVICTED MAN’S REFORM

LORD PLENDER’S STORY

How a man who figured in a financial crash 40 years ago made good after serving a term' of .penal servitude was told by Lord Blender at the annual meeting of the Loncon Police Court Mission, at the Mansion House, London, recently. On being released from prison, said Lord Plender, the man went to Hye with his wife in a London suburb. His condition became so dire that at last he sought Lord Blender’s assistance. “] saw the man,” said Lord Plender “and found him a highly intelligent and, 1 believe at heart, a good man. I tried to get him a situation, but failing, I took him into my own office. That man stayed with us for 15 years, up to within a day or two of his death. “During his service with us ho comported himself with dignity, and no one in my office was more respected and esteemed by his colleagues. He had the courage not to change his name. When he died a large number oi my staff and several of my partners went, to his funeral to bear testimony to a man who had made good.”