A HORRIBLE CRIME.
TO THE EDITOR, i
Sir,— ln the.Timek.pi-. to-dayll .see that,a., man named Grimmond was charged with the revolting crime of haVmg no visible means of support, and vgot'Voff with the ridiculously easy sentence bf two months. You Were agitating ihV'yOtir valuable columns a ahort time ago for public abattoirs. I agree with you the State should at once provide them; also a Lord High Executioner; and every old, mxddleaged or young man or woman having no lawful visible or invisible means of support could be quietly knocked on the head or shot. It would he far more merciful treatment than slowly starving them, to death or giving them the humiliating process of applying to 'Bumble for the dole of one and ninepence a week.—l am, &c.,
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11334, 30 July 1897, Page 6
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129A HORRIBLE CRIME. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11334, 30 July 1897, Page 6
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