DEWHURST DOES IN HIS OLD DAME.

NZ Truth, Issue 854, 1 April 1922, Page 5

DEWHURST DOES IN HIS OLD DAME.

Lawyer J. F. B. Stevenson told a sad tale about Frederick William. Peiyhurst, 23 years of age, when he stood up m the- dock, about a piano, a gramophone and odds and ends he had stolenDewhurst, he said, had drawn a blank as to work, and for a couple of months had done nothing but look for toil and fail to find it and feel hungry. Moreover, he had few words with the old folk at home and had left them to it while he did as well as he could anywhere else. As a result he had not too much tucker av^r no bed. as a civilised man knows' it, for a night or two. Then his people left their homestead at Newtown for a while and he had a bright idea. On one day he called for the piano and handed it over to a dealer for twenty quid, and on another picked up ths gramophone and divers other furnishings and handed them over somewhere else. Everything had been returned barring the twenty advanced by the piano emporium. Before he had got so hungry, said counsel, Dewhurst was a white-haired boy with lots of proud school records and a bundle of references from former bosses, but perhaps a smash: that had laid him out unconscious for three weeks had had something <to do /with spoifling the clean sheet. His Honor looked over the report of the P.O. and decided that two years' probation — no billiards and no pubs with billiard saloons round about — would meet the case if the twenty quidlets were handed back inside six months, and the Crown got back the £3 12s it had spent on the prosecution. .'"■■..., .