WINDOWS BROKEN.
UNEMPLOYED MAN’S ACT IN WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, Marek 15. “I lost my head, and I did something desperate. I must have been mad — starvation has driven me that way,” said John Male, a labourer, aged 63, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, to explain his action in breaking six plate glass windows in the premises of the Union Clothing Company, Ltd., Cuba Street, on Friday night. From the dock the accused, in pleading guilty, reiterated the statement he had made to the police He said he had been paid 7s 6d the week previously, but on Friday when he went to the Labour Bureau he had been refused. Male was committed by Mr. E. Page, S.M., to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of committing mischief by wilfully breaking the six windows, valued at £l5B 16s 6d.— (PA..)
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Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1933, Page 4
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