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TWO VAGABONDS. f \ A .MONTH’S GAO L. .... '• T (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) October 16. It, appears to the Court as just, one of the meanest things you could possibly do, to rob someone else of the food necessary for him to live. So said Magistrate Mosley, when two labourers. Charles Franklin Francis, aged 26. and Charles Cuchlon. aged 36, were charged with being rogues and vagabonds by imposing on the North Canterbury Hospital Board with intent to obtain benefit. Both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one month’s hard labour. The police said the accused secured rations from the Hospital Board, giving a wrong address, when they really were staying in a Salvation Army Home. Francis had admitted he' threw some of the rations away.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1931, Page 6
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