Judge’s Tears
“He is just one of those poor unfortunate creatures who sometimes find their way into the courts. He i<? more to be -pitied than to be blamed,’ - said Mr J. F. W. Dickson when making a plea in the Auckland Supreme Court on behalf of a man who had admitted breaking into a shop. “You will have me crying in a minute,” said Mr Justice Blair crisply. “I am doing my best,” reponded Mr Dickson. After hearing the probation officer, his Honor ordered the man to be detained for reformative purposes for nine months,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1947, Page 7
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