PATHETIC DOCK APPEAL.
BURIAL BESIDE WIFE. With tears streaming clown his face, a white-headed old man, Samuel Deutsman, 78, stood in the dock at Brighton, England, lately, and made a pathetic appeal to the magistrates to he allowed to remain in the town so that ho could die in the bod where his wife had died a few months ago and ho buried in the same grave beside her. Ho was charged with stealing goods, worth 10s 6d, from two local stores. " When my wife was alive we could manage, but now that she is gone I only get 10s a week old age pension to live on, and I find it hard to make ends meet," the old man said. " I am an old man and have only a short time to live. I have a little home and should be happy and contented if I could remain there for a while so that I can die in the same bed as my wife." Asked if he was prepared to go and live with his son who had offered him a home in London, Deutsman replied, " I know he is one of the best sons in the world, but please grant me this one request." Deutsman was bound over on condition that he went to live with bis son, who promised that when his father died he would be brought back to Brighton and buried in the Jewish cemetery beside his wife.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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