WINDOW BROKEN
TO SECURE NIGHT’S LODGING. POLICE FIND ACCOMMODATION. (JISHOHNR’ JUNK 2:1 Having lieoii refused ii( , <'Oiniticx.laLion both al Si. Francis House and at the police, an elderly man hit upon means of securing a lied lor one night at least. He threw a stone* through the police station window and waited to lie arrested. Mr I*. H. Harper, S.M., provided him willi accommodation for one month.
Accused Was Joseph Fiswiek, age,| 152. Senior-Sergeant Wade explained that in a soinowlial intoxicated condition accused called at SI. Francis House and was refused accoitunoda I ion. lie went to the police station, but was refused accommodation there also, as he "as not sufficiently intoxicated to be arrested. He then went outside, selected a large stone and threw it through one of tin 1 windows. When a. eonstable rushed out lie found accused standing in the doorway, saying “I did it. Perhaps you’ll give me a bed now.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1932, Page 6
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155WINDOW BROKEN Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1932, Page 6
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