A Strange Story in a Police Court.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). Timabu, January 30 An odd Btor/ was told in the Police Court bj a youth of 18 years, who pleaded guiltj of wilfully breaking a shop window He said he did it in view of a constable for the purpose of getting a night's lodging and supper. He stated that he came from Australia to look for his father, William Ogilvy, said to be farming in the Middle Island, aud with the aid of a list from a directory called on all the Ogilvys from Dunedin up. He had lived with an aunt id New South Wales, and had not seen his father since he was six years old. He had asked the constable to help him in his search, and said he broke a window in the hope that his father would see hie name in the papers. The Justices, sympathising with him, discharged him on his giving a promise that he would go to work, and not ramble pen* mless any more. A situation was offered him in Court, and accepted.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 228, 1 February 1894, Page 3
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