"CALL TO STOP WORK."
MAN'S STRANGE PLEA. PROMPTINGS OF A "VOICE." POLICE COURT CHARGE FOLLOWS [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORItESPONDENT.] DUNEDIN. Monday. "I received a call to cease manual work," said John Stevens, who appeared in the Police Court to-day to answer a charge of failing to maintain his wife and 12 children. Stevens told the Court that 110 was working for tlie PubliP Works Department at the new post office site in August of last year. One morning as he was going in, he heard a voice say, "Collect your pay-" He was somewhat concerned, but tho voice went 011, "Do as I say. I command you." Stevens added that he and a friend had known that this "work" was coming for eight or nine years. Asked the nature of the work, Stevens said that it was more or less evangelistic. "Do you realise that giving up your work practically amounted to leaving your wife and children to starve ?" asked the magistrate. Stevens said such was not the ca6e and spoke of work he did about tho house and garden. • "How were you going to support the children ?" asked the Bench. "On the face of it, that is a question that it is hard to explain," replied Stevens. He was remanded in custody until Friday for medical observation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20870, 12 May 1931, Page 11
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