PATHETIC TASK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3390, 4 December 1911, Page 9

PATHETIC TASK.

ALAYOR SENTENCES AN OLD SCHOOLFELLOW.

There was a pathetic incident at the Lincoln Police Court recently, when the Alayor of Lincoln, Air. C. H, Newsum, had to pass sentence on Alusham, a corn merchant, who attended school with him.

"You will readily undertsand,” said the Mayor to Alusham, the extremely paintul position lam in. I carry my mind back over thirty years, when you and I were at school together, and you had the brightest prospects before you. Never thought then that I should be called on to pass sentence on you.” Alusham was accused of breaking windows at the house occupied by his wife, from whom he was separated some time ago. "I wish somebody else could have taken the task out of my hands,” said the Alayor when the facts had been stated, "but we must view these things in the light of what is due to the community. Your history lately has ceen exceedingly bad. "To your wife you have been a great trouble* She has attempted to obtain an honest living, which she is obliged to seek owing to your thoughtlessness, and vour absolute neglect of your children. What has taken place in the past seems to have had little influence on you. and we have to consider what is best for you, for her, and for the community. "We have come to the conclusion that you must be sent to prison for two months. I hope the ministrations of the prison chaplain may produce beneficial results.