BEGGAR WITH £560.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4411, 6 February 1930, Page 2

BEGGAR WITH £560.

SUPPOSED VAGRANT ARRESTED.

A oil-year-old single woman who appeared before Mr. Foster Brook, •1.!’., on remand at the Hastings Police Court on Monday had a little surprise waiting lor her accusers.

She was charged with being an idle and disorderly person with msulfieient visible means of support. Certainly she had not been idle, lor, according to Senior-Sergeant Dempsey, she had been pretty busy during the past six months going from house to house in Hastings, soliciting gifts of old clothes. In one instance she had forgotten to return a borrowed overcoat. As to her alleged disorderliness, nothing was said in Court. As to the invisibility and insufficiency of her means, they were invisible to the police when the first charge was made, hut when she was subseMiienlly searched by a constable, he found £s(>(i in .120 notes in her possession. ,

In addressing the Bench, the se-nior-sergeant said that accused had confessed to having begged clothes at Uislmme before she came to Hastings. Her only apparent possession when she was arrested was 2/7, but in actual fact that 2/7 was 15(iO short of a true balance. The police had banked £550 for her that morning and she had been left £lO lo go on with.

On the senior-sergeant’s application the charge was dismissed, but the accused was warned to give up her begging tactics.