IMPOSTOR SENT TO PRISON
TRESPASS IN THE PEOPLE’S PALACE. Sutherland Murray Donald Grant (for whom Mr. A. B. Sievwright appeared) was charged before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday/ with wilfully trespassing in the People’s Palace and refusing to leave when requested to do so. He was also charged with being an idle and disorderly person in that he possessed no visible means of support. .Senior -Sergeant Landers said l that Grant went to the People’s Palace on Tuesday, had a meal, and went away without paying. At midday on Wednesday ho went in for another meal, and this was refused. He was ordered to leave the dining room, but lie declined to do so. The police were sent for and Grant bolted upstairs, followed by a constable and tho proprietor. Grant was eventually discovered' under a bed and was arrested. Ho had 4d. in his possession.
Detective-Sergeant Andrews said he had known Grant, for a number of years. He was a man who had lived by his wits. Ho was known to the. police from one end of New Zealand to the other. He was just a "take down." Mr. Siovwright said it was a matter for regret that the man should appear before the Court in this way. but drink was tho cause of his trouble. Ho was a veteran of two wars—the Boer War and the Great War—and had been wounded. He had a military pension, and it could not be said that he was without means. If the Court convicted him he would lose his pension. It would be within the power of tho Court to say that the man’s appearance there that day was sufficient punishment provided ho agreed to take out a prohibition order. Tho Magistrate said ho would have given counsel’s suggestion consideration had it not been for tho fact that the man had been convicted eight times (twice this year). Furthermore, Detective Andrews had stated that he was a "take down,’’ and as tho racing season was commencing such mon as ho were better out of the way. Grant was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 23, 21 October 1921, Page 9
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357IMPOSTOR SENT TO PRISON Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 23, 21 October 1921, Page 9
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