A SPORT OF FATE.
SAW OWN STONY ENACTED CRIMINAL ENVIES PLAYWRIGHT. LONDON, Feb. 7. After receiving £5 from a playwright for the narrative of his 14 years' life qi crime, William Hurley, an elderly tailor, on hi© release, after serving another term, “homeless, penniless, and alone,” read in a newspaper that the playwright had received £14,000 for the film rights of his successful play, based on Hurley’s manuscript. “Imagine my feelings,” Hurley said to a, magistrate, after admitting a theft'. “I have suffered more than anyone in the world as the sport of fortune. I sat in the stalls watching mj play with sixpence and three-farthings in my pocket. All the manager offered me was a whisky and soda and a stage job as a convict.” Magistrate: Your record is terrible. Eighteen months. .
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 February 1928, Page 9
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133A SPORT OF FATE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 February 1928, Page 9
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