RAIN BRINGS PENITENCE.
Many curious psychological results have been attributed to a shower of rain.
A youth who stood in tlie dock at Tower Bridge said when he surrendered to the police “I decided to give myself up after it came on to rain.” “It is penitence only brought about by a shower of rain,” said the magistrate passing sentence. He gave the lad a month’s hard labor . This barometric offender, William Henry Tomlin, seventeen ,of Galleywall Road, Bermondsey, was charged with stealing a metal watch and chain and cycling guide book belonging to his father. The lad left home with the articles, and wrote a letter to his mother stating that he committed the robbery because he wanted to go on a training ship. He concluded. “I am now walking the streets. —Willie.” He had previously been placed on probation for felony.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3363, 1 November 1911, Page 7
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143RAIN BRINGS PENITENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3363, 1 November 1911, Page 7
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