“GO AND SIN NO MORE”
DRAMATIC COURT SCENE. There was a dramatic conclusion to a court case at Hull, where William Kirkwood, a ship’s officer, was discharged by the magistrate, although he pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining gold watches by false pretences from two jewellers. It was stated that Kirkwood represented that he wanted the watche.-i on approval for his captain to see. as he Was going to make him a present. Cao of the jewellers was suspicious, and telephoned for the police. The magistrate was informed that Kirkwood was suffering under the strain of three unsuccessful examinations before passing as a second mate, and had suddenly conceived this method of obtaining money to enable him to go to Cardiff for a ship. The magistrate said: “The law of England is such that, although you have pleaded guTty, I can discharge you. It is the nearest approach to the Divine Law, “ Though : your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow. Go and sin no more. ’ ’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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