A LONELY LIFE
ASTONISHING STORY MAN’S WANDERINGS ROUND DUNEDIN "'er Preafl Association.] DUNEDIN, May 13. Arthur George Renney appeared at the Police Court this morning on 24 charges of breaking, entering, and theft. An astonishing story of his wanderings between Evansdale and Dunedin during the last four months was read is his signed statement. The incentive to breaking into various dwellings and cribs was. apparently, mainly hunger. Invariably his stay in unoccupied cribs was marked by much feasting. Rarely did he hinder himself with anything not useful to his wanderings. On one occasion, after breaking into a crib at St. Leonard’s and boarding himself gratis for two days, he embarked in to an old row-boat and had a rather perilous three-hnur voyage in the leaky tub to Broad Bay. Continuing his wanderings and depredations among harbour cribs, sometimes he was without food for days sleeping among the lupins. Then some weeks ago he bethought himself of the good things stored in Neill’s bond, in the city and made his entry in a fashion described in a previous telegram, living heartily on tinned delicacies, champagne, etc., and hiding by day among the rafters. Often during his lonely wanderings he sat in the scrub above Ravensbourne watching his former home, where his wife and baby lived. The latter was born after he had quitted his home for the hills and one of his first questions after his arrest was: “Is it a boy or a girl?” Rcnney pleaded guilty to all charges and was committed for sentence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 7
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255A LONELY LIFE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 7
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