A DOUBLE DOWNFALL.
PUPIL AND HIS TEACHER.
MEET IN PRISONERS' ROOM.
TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT,
[BI IKLEUEAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDmJ CHRISTCHtmCH. Sunday. When Samuel Robert Smith and Wilhma Fraser Park met in the prisoners' room at the Supreme Court this morniiig r«cognition was mutual. Their thoughts must have winged back a few year* to the St. Andrew's School, near Tiroiuu, fop there Park was the head teachor and Smith was tho dux pupiL Smith left the school with his career fixed, apparently, as a school teacher. Talented and full of promise, Smith abandoned his profession for other pursuits, and this morning, when sentenced to thr«o years' reformative treatment for breaking 1 and entering, he was told he was fortunate |f|f not to ba classed as an habitual criminal. Park, a man of attainments, entered tl-e '% police van with Smith with the words of the Judge, who imposed sentence on liinr of five years in prison for a grave offence ringing in his ears. , !
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18838, 13 October 1924, Page 6
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161A DOUBLE DOWNFALL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18838, 13 October 1924, Page 6
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