POLICE COURT.
Before Messrs and McNeil, : Justices,., Amos ■■■ Burr .was . yeßterday brought up on a charge p); haying , been ; found m illegal occupation of a; railway^ carriage. It appeared that the police had oh several occasions previously warned the accused against 'persisting, in' this practice, and finally' fouud it necessary to' institnte' proceedings. The aeciiead^leaded^hat he had used the carriage as a tehipbrary shelter, bejng: subject to/ai certain complaint, which \\\ his disabled state at times caused him iriconvehiencßi The Bench > considered the. defence a- very .lame and unsatisc 6nei but out/bf icbhsid^ratjoti for the accused fined him m the nominal penalty of Is and c6Bts,"Ciiutioning- him at the same time not to render himself liable |o a siniilar prosecution on a future Occasion, or bo would be more* severely dealt! with. It was pointed but t to the "rfcensed that^ a very heavy penalty; couldVbetinxpb^edf for ofiEences of - the kind witKl whicb/ihe^&a charged,.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1562, 21 November 1885, Page 4
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153POLICE COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1562, 21 November 1885, Page 4
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