BUTCHER SLEEPS OUT.
FOUND IN PACKING CASE. ARRESTED FOR VAGRANCY. At 2.33 yesterday morning James Cromwell {54). a butcher, was discovered by a constable fast asleep in a packing case on a vacant section in the city. Cromwell, who was arrested, appeared at the Police Court to-day when he, pleaded guilty to a charge which deemed him to be an idle and disorderly person with insufficient means of support. Sub-Inspector McCarthy paid it wns difficult to know what to do with Cromwell, who had iio previous convictions and had been in and out of gaol for some years past. "There is no where else for a man like him to go/' said M. F. K. Hunt in consigning accused to prison for three months. "When legislation goes through we will know exactly what to do with those men who sleep out and have no homes."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 231, 30 September 1929, Page 7
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145BUTCHER SLEEPS OUT. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 231, 30 September 1929, Page 7
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