FALL FROM GRACE

NZ Truth, Issue 1078, 22 July 1926, Page 9

FALL FROM GRACE

WITH his head buried m his hands and his body shaken . with silent sobbing Andrew Ivan Christie, a railway employee, stood m the dock at the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, a melancholy and miserable figure. for v disgrace and shame had overtaken him, and what previously' had been a spotless character was sullied by the taint of crime. In a fit of sudden and uncontrollable temptation he , had stolen a £10 note m a friend's house which he was visiting, (and lost no time m cashing it when free of the house. ''' 1' ■■'•'/ 1 It was all so easy — and unexpected. He was asked to go, into a room and fetch something, and .it was while he was complying" with the request that his eye fell on a cash -box. , „ He looked, he saw- and he fell. For seven years he had been with the Railway. Department and had an unblemished record. "A case of sudden temptation. He has never been m trouble before," said his lawyer. Twelve months' probation was the punishment. . 1 ItlM IIItM Illlllltlll Illltlf 111 Mlllll I IMtll Illllltllll IIIMI liltlllillllli Illtl Illllil I IDIIUIIIIIt