A CRIPPLED DIPSOMANIAC
PUZZLE FOR REFORMERS GRAMAPHONE AND -DRINK Mr. 11. A. Young, S.M., was set a problem at Christchurch, when Cecil I-’raneis came before him on two charges of drunkenness and procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. Francis is a badly crippled man of 5i years, who earns a livelihood by playing a gramophone in the streets lrotn a chair in which he wheels himself about. tSub-lnspector Mathew: He plays a gramophone in the street and spends all Ids money in drink. The magistrate asked the Rev F. Rule, probation officer, it he had any suggestions to make. “No,” replied Mr. Rule, “lie is too great it problem for me.’’ Defendenl was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and fined £2 on the other charge.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 11
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128A CRIPPLED DIPSOMANIAC Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 11
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