The Sun, Wed 3 Oct 1928 ¹

“GIVE ME CHANCE”
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CAUGHT BY GIRL’S FIANCÉ
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MARRIED MAN’S LAPSE

    Charged with having behaved indecently in front of a young girl, George Hirst, an ash trimmer, employed at the White Bay Power House, appeared at Hunter’s Hill Court yesterday.

    The girl stated that she was walking down Salter-street, Gladesvllle, to meet her fiancé, on the afternoon of September 9.

    Disgusted by the man’s behavior, she ran away, but was followed by Hirst. Then she met her fiancé, who grappled with Hirst, and handed him over to the police.

    “Give me another chance, lady, I am a married man, and I will get six months, for this,” Hirst said, commencing to cry.

    Mr Williams, SM: This is a very serious charge that you are making against this man. If he is found guilty he is liable to a long term of imprisonment, and it will mean losing a good job, and the breaking up of his home.

    Hirst was found guilty, and a sentence of six months’ imprisonment was suspended under the First Offenders’ Act. upon his entering into a bond of £30 to be of good behavior for two years.
 

¹     The Sun, (Sydney, NSW), Wed 3 Oct 1928, p. 22.