LOOKING FOR WORK.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 204, 16 June 1914, Page 4

LOOKING FOR WORK.

And Victimising Clergymen Prohibited and Warned. r0 Sll .St The exploitation of the generosity of Auckland clergymen resulted in the appearance of John VV. Camp- lK bell at the Auckland Poh.e Court I ni the other day en a charge cf beirg Ir a rojuo ar.d a\a.2ato. d, in that h 1 '- imr.ojtd 11 p-in the Kev. K. and Rev. Canon Mac Murray, with a vitw to obtaining money. ! w It was stated by Detective-Ser- 1 ()1 geant Hollis that Campbell had vie- i c] 'imised clergymen and other benevolent people. His story wa* that he was a seaman, who had coiru | - out of g;ui flith the deaite to lead | * | an hontst life, Lut that he could not i secure employment, owing to the jjj fact that he had bst his seaman's j discharge. If he c uld ohtain 5s it , would cnabli him to aapi.e a j ■ | "Board of Trade certificate, and j I with it the char.ce of employment. ! As a mat er of" fact more than one j ■ pers n did help him. Campbell 1 carried with him a sealed letter, addressed to a man at Opiheke, ntar Fapakuta, which, he said, cor- i tained a recommendation to the ad- j j dressee to give him-, Campbell, work, I Detective-Sergeant Mollis ex- j plained that it had been his inter- | tion to suggest that the man should ba given a chance to pr:seat his I letter to the farmer, and thereby obtain work, but he had just opened the envelope a d examined its contents. Th:se consisted of three pages torn from a Bible, the humorjus ; a?pei:t of the matter being that the ! pages formed part of the Book of | Revelations. Campbell said he was prepared to j leave the town a:.d go to woik if j | the Magistrate would merely prohibit i I him and give him one more chance, j The Magistrate, Mr K. C. Cutten, j d.cidcd t) give the man one more ! chance to reform. Accordingly | Campbell was convicted and ordered j to come up for sentence when ca:ied | 1 upon, pas prohibited, and was ; J warned that if he came before the ! Court again a sentence of 12 months 1 imprisonment would be waiting for j him.