IN DESPERATE STRAITS.
ELDERLY MAN ARRESTED. CHRISTCHURCH, June 30. “It was just a case of an honest man, having neither job, money, nor home, getting desperate. It is a case of real hard luck, and far removed from the usual type that comes before your Worship,” said the police to-day, when Alexander Marinus Christinus Tuk, aged 59, and de? scribed as a cook from Holland, was charged with wilfully breaking a pane of glass, valued at ss, the property of the New Zealand Government, and also with being an idle and disorderly person. The defendant had deliberately broken a window in the old Post Office so that he might be arrested. He was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, and the Salvation Army promised to care for him.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3877, 3 July 1928, Page 25
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131IN DESPERATE STRAITS. Otago Witness, Issue 3877, 3 July 1928, Page 25
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