SENT HOME TO DIE.

NZ Truth, Issue 252, 23 April 1910, Page 7

SENT HOME TO DIE.

Wallace ' Harry Smith, an immigrant, who arrived by the s.s. Cornwall, "was brought before Mr Cutten, S.M., at the Auckland Court' on Monday morning, charged with : being a prohibited immigrant. The unfortunate should never have been permitted to leave England, as he was suffering from consumption of the throat, and his voice had dwindled to ,a hoarse whisper. He 'was possessed of d>l,7, and that amount would soon have gone for sustenance m a cheap lodging house, but the law says he must not be at large, and for the past eight days he has occupied a remand cell at Mount UJden. As a result of this enforced incarceration he loosed at death's door, and by letter asHed the Magistrate to send him to hospital instead of the gaol. Mr Cutten gave -the matter most careful consideration, and m the best interests of the unfortunate, ordered that he be placed on the- Cornwall, now at Lyttelton.