LIFE WITHOUT HOPE
SAD PHASE OF UNEMPLOYMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November 19. Arthur Gray, an ex-convict, was sentenced at Derby to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour for failing to notify the police of a change of his address. Accused, from the dock, declared: “I would sell my soul to God or man or the devil to get out of the country. I am homeless, friendless and useless. I tried to commit suicide in gaol because I knew I would have no prospects w’hen released. I slit my veins but the prison doctor pulled me round. They will allow me neither to die nor live.”
The Court Missioner suggested that, in view of the prevalence of unemployment, convicts should not be liberated before the expiry of the full sentence.
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Southland Times, Issue 19102, 21 November 1923, Page 5
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