HOW THE POLICE GOT HIM.
MENDICANT CAUGHT. (By TclcsraDh.-SDeclat CorrcsDondont.l Palmerston, January 17. A man named William Barker, who has over a score of previous convictions against, him, fell into the hands of the jwhee in a rather curious way to-dav. He was going from house to house telling a somowhat pitiful tale of want and suffering, and soliciting financial aid when ho quite unknowingly called at tho private, residence of the Sub-Inspector of Police, who at once recognised tho vagrant. He was escorted to the police station, and, later in tho day, appeared in the Police Court, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy, and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1340, 18 January 1912, Page 4
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114HOW THE POLICE GOT HIM. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1340, 18 January 1912, Page 4
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