UNLAWFULLY IN HOUSE
SEAMEN AND “CUP OF TEA.’
AUCKLAND, Feb. 18.
“Not guilty. 1 want a hearing this time,’’ pleaded Peter O'Malley, aged 49, seaman, who was charged at 'the Police' Count, to-day with being found without lawful excuse in a house in Mountain Road on Saturday afternoon.
Evidence was given that O'Malley was found just inside the door of a house. When asked what he was doing there, he said h© had “come for a cup of tea.’’ “All 1 was doing was watching a game of tennis 1 was interested in/ said accused. “I only came out. of goal a little before that and I hadn’t had a beer even. Loolc here, your Worship, 1 can get a job. There’s a Glasgow ship in .port now and they want a man. 1 1! get right out of the country."
“There’s been a Glasgow boat in for the last seven years according to him,’’ said Detective Sergeant Kelly. “If he could get one, or be shanghaied out of this country it would be a blessing, as he is only a parasite in this town.” ■Mr Hunt : He always seems to be'up he*e. Why don't you charge him with vagrancy
Detective Sergeant Kelly: He’s never out of prison long enough to charge him with vagrancy.”
O’Malley was fined £l, or three days' imprisonment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1932, Page 3
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223UNLAWFULLY IN HOUSE Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1932, Page 3
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