INNOCENT MUST SUFFER

NZ Truth, Issue 1079, 5 August 1926, Page 9

INNOCENT MUST SUFFER

|| (From "Truth's" Special Cliristchurch Representative.) || II JW Mft/ITH a stifled sob that shattered the stillness of the ' f[ || 9^^T Court, the •unfortunate wretch m the dock, cover- 1! || jHNfIP * n & his face with his hands, burst into tears. II lj Frank William Harper was crushed under the U 1 1 ' * • v sentence of eighteen months' reformative detention || | which the Ghristchurch, 'magistrate imposed upon him for 1! 1 a certain act committed m a public street m view of two II [ women, ; jj | ißut there is a third woman m the sordid \ little drania II [ that was playqd out 3he is Harper's wife, who is lying 1! | seriously ilMn hospital, ..-■'.■'■•.• If | AVhen sentence was passed. Harper . crumpled up as H |l though the structure of all hope of mercy had crumbled if || witJiin him. His tears were as much for his poor Avife as f| 1| for'hiinselJ:. ' . .. If |f Truly the way of the. transgressor is hard, but the m- If ll nocent have ever suffered with the guilty! It is just Life. II I!, imi.limntlllml.ilim I mii.mmm.m.MHm,,,,,,,, ..m..u...i.m..mi.m..mm..m mm.imm.m.Hmnm ..in., IM,.l M,.m l mm.mumM. l m..m.mM.. 11 .u,ui.. mninj I fjiiiiiiliiimmmimii.iiiiniiiiMiiiiiiiii.iiiii.iii.iiiiiii.mmmtiiiimmiim.umi minim miiiimmtiiiiii iiiiii.Mi.iiiiiiinniiiiiiiiii!iii!i!mintimimiiii!mii!t!im'iiiiiiiim!iiiii!iii!mKtiim4