TRAMP TURNS POET
VERSE FROM THE DOCK Stated to have been convicted on *l2 occasions since 1901, a 75-year-old tramp, Michael Dcvaney, spoke Ins defence in rhyme when he was sentenced at Winchester Quarter Sessions to nine months' hard labour for stealing a suitcase from a car at Basingstoke. He declared: "I'm called Michael Dcvaney, of no fixed abode. Either in prison or loose 011 the road; I walk round the country, I got what I can, I own to my faults like a true Gal way man. I'm before the Recorder at Winchester to-day, But where in a short time I really can't say . . . Perhaps in Winchester Gaol for all I know. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.' As he left the dock Dcvaney shouted, "Good luck to you and a merry Christmas."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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135TRAMP TURNS POET New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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