VAGRANCY CHARGES
SOMEWHAT UNUSUAL FEATURES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, March 25. Two vagrancy charges with somewhat unusual features were before the Magistrate's Court to-day. William P. Storey, a. young man who was for a time a Parliamentary candidate for Parnell, and who in other ways was well known, was charged with vagrancy. AVlien the case came on the police applied for a remand for a week so that accused might be kept under medical observation. Accused's counsel strongly objected, and asked for an immediate medical examination. This was agreed to, but a.s a result of it the doctors themselves asked for &. week's remand, and the Court allowed this. In the second case the police charged a man named Mitchell with being without lawful means of support, and said that he was an ex-watersider and striker who had not been to the new union, and who had been idling about the wharf for many months past, using objectionable language to new unionists. In Court, however, accused produced a bank book showing £150 standing to his credit, and the Magistrate said that in these very unusual circumstances lie could do nothing except dismiss the case.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 3
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193VAGRANCY CHARGES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 3
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