HONEST MAN DESPERATE
POLICE SUPPORT WINDOWBREAKER. DUTCHMAN'S BAD LUCK. CIIiIIISTOHUECH, July 2. "Itl wa» just a cases of .an honest man, having neither job, money nor home, getting desperate. It is a case «f real hard luck and far removed from the usual type that comes before your Worship-" This Vfhs part of the police evidence when Alexander Marinus Christinas Tukj aged 59, described as » cook from Holland, wa s charged with wilfully breaking & sane of glass, valued at ss, the property of the New Zealand Government, and also with being an idle \aiid 1 disorderly person. 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 ealled upon and the Salvation Army ; promised to care for him. j
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 83, 3 July 1928, Page 5
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