| Description Of Item | Press cutting from an unknown publication, published in 1868. Reports on the story of Robert Mitchell Glover, an educated man, who had been a lieutenant-colonel, and after leaving this position had ‘led a dissolute life, squandered his property, and was reduced to destitution’. He was charged for begging twice, by the Westminster Police Court two years before, and by the Bow Street Police Court. A witness named Charles Wood (of North Hill, Highgate) explained how he tried to help Glover, by giving him employment and lodgings on the condition of abstaining from alcohol entirely. Glover did so, however he proved ‘useless’, being neglectful and with a bad memory. His mental capacities (‘mind’) were seemingly too much impaired by drinking and rendered him unable to keep any subsequent employment: ‘he was incompetent to perform any kind of business’.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |