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JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

THE STORM

STORM CENTRE

THERE were five in the

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family. There Jane, who went out to work as a cleaner; her husband. a milk roundsman; und their three children, whose;

ages were years.

"She's not

" very good example to the children, is stret

Jane's husband said nothing. A women probation offler went into the witness-box "Jazie tells me," she said, "that she 12, nine and six only got £3 out of the £8 118. her husband earned last week. He told her he had debis and other commitments to settle with the

rest

The family lived in one of the greyer parts of London, and the atmosphere in their home had!

The magistrate turned to Jane

for some months been grey too į "Well, it's no good your coming grey and stabbed from time to and throwing yourself on your time with fierce searjet flashes ; children again."

}

he waid

as tempera flared. A stormy, "Everybody's in some fintineial

muy home unhappy

difficulty from time to Ume The spark that ignited Jane's

"You are

* common thief enused her fears temper and

What an example to set three was, if she is to be believed, her children, whom you now ask me husband's attitude to work. to protect by letting you go

STEALING

buck to them....

the

1

TE was always in and out of

declared.

his. But blamed in palafu! trouble he had

and

WOR

unemployment.

with his legs for keeping him from ‘a“ regular job Early last summer, during one of her hu band's spells of Jane stole fon she was working she pleaded that stolen that her

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nal. She

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tion.

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house where At her tria) she had only children might pt on proba-

The other day Jane was again caught stealing, from the rooms

of a club where she worked as

it cleaner,

AT.

OH, MY CHILDREN

т Clerkenwell coul she pleaded guilty to taking money on three different day.. n total of £6.

gather Mittel

police

officer, when he had told the magistrate, Mr T F Davies, of T:41"༥

woman's

erimies.

husbanki

afraid of work

What thin

rather

She says he has been in and out of jobs through the lust 16 years, and that she stole to buy food for

her children.

"Oh my children, what happen to my children”“ moaned.

Jane