Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Their Excuse for Theft. [ARTICLE]

Their Excuse for Theft.

It was stated at Brentford police court that two men charged with burglary got away with a bag containing ISO farthings and left behind a note which read: “We are two poor ,rejected men who are doing this toTTeep us out of the workhouse.” —London Daily Telegraph.