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NZ Truth, Issue 328, 7 October 1911, Page 6

Fred Tidyman was guilty of very untidy behavior at Christchurch t'other day. He seized his prohibition ordcd and jumped upon it with the strength of many beers, and with kleptomanical habits revived by swank, plucked a pair of boots from the doorway of a local bootery and sold 'em at the nearest second-hand shop for coin to procure more beer. They were then marked up cheap, and a sole-worn stranger purchased them, but, as m Powelka's case, they pinched him, and he took them to the shop from which they had been snared to have them stretched. Then they pinched Tidyman, who pleaded guilty later. A study of his record showed that this was merely a recrudescence of beer and dishonesty, and Magistrate Bishop gave him three months m which to work himself into a more respectable frame of mind.