Fathers of large families saluted him as the protector of morality in the young and the unjust victim of ‘the sneers of the evil-doers’. Many envelopes containing money arrived at the newspaper office to defray Andrew’s legal expenses, one man announcing that he bad collected a shilling from each of seventy men after a few minutes canvassing ‘Under the Verandah’ – the place in Collins Street frequented by speculators and merchants. And the final halo was placed over Andrew’s head by a signed address from some sixty school teachers and educationalists, offering him their sincere sympathy and approval.
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