A KIND HEARTED JUDGE.
Glasgow is blessed with a most rare judge—a man in whose eyes there is no crime in poverty. Thus when " a respectable looking man " was brought up before him at St. Rollox Police Court, 011 a charge of begging, this remarkable judge—Bailie Carswell—instead of clapping the malefsctorstraight in gaol, patiently heard the man's statement that he could get no work in Glasgow, and paid his fare to Greenock, where the miscreant had relations. In another case the same magistrate presented half-a-crown to a yound lad who appeared in court with his left arm in a sling. His statement was that he had no friends in the city, and had been disabled by getting his arm broken.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 266, 9 March 1897, Page 4
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120A KIND HEARTED JUDGE. Hastings Standard, Issue 266, 9 March 1897, Page 4
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