Flere detaljer om min morfar

Etter den overraskende oppdagelsen at min morfar, Karl Laurits Bolling, emigrerte til Australia på 1920-tallet, har jeg nå fått flere detaljer om hans lovbrudd i 1930. I mitt innlegg nevnte jeg at den store depresjonen slo særlig hardt til i Australia. Det viser seg at han var arbeidsløs, og påberopte seg et akutt pengebehov. Dette fant jeg i en avis. 

BEER BOTTLES STOLEN

Wharf Theft Costs £3. Theft of a dozen beer bottles, valued at 1/, from a crate on McLaten Wharf, Port Adelaide yesterday, cost Carl Lauritz Bolling, laborer, of Port Adelaide £3 in Port Adelaide Police Court today. The default was imprisonment for two weeks.

Messrs. J. H. Richards and A. Gower were on the Bench. Inspector J. E. Noblet prosecuted. Water Police Constable L. V. M. Lea said that he saw the defendant take the bottles from the crate.

Bolling told the court that he was out of work, and wanted the money to buy socks.

"We sympathise with you fellows who are out of work, but you must learn to leave the property of others alone," commented Mr. Richards.