DESPERATE ACT
BREAKING OF WINDOWS. GUILT ADMITTED.. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. “I lost my head, and I did -something desperate. I must have been mad—starvation, has driven ino that way,’said John Male, a labourer, aged 63, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, to explain his action in breaking six plateglass windows in the premises of L'Union Clothing Company, Ltd., Cum Street, on Friday night. From the dock the accused, dn pleading guilty, reiterated the statement he had made to tlve police. He said he had been paid Vs 6d the week previously, but on Friday, wlie-n he went to ilie Labour Bureau, he lia.d 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. (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 March 1933, Page 5
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