“BIT OF A BUFFALO BILL.”

Shannon News, 31 August 1926, Page 4

“BIT OF A BUFFALO BILL.”

■■ - 1 -- "♦ —; ,■ SEAMAN BEFORE THE COURT. AUCKLAND, Last Night. “He’s a bit of a Buffalo Bill, Vam couver, or something ,and he wears a wide-brimmed hat," was the unusual description given by SeniorDetective Hammond of Francis Edgar Burgess, aged 19, a seaman, who pleaded guilty at the Police Court to a charge deeming him to be an idle and disorderly person with insufficient means of support. * “This young man was paid off the Kiwitea on July 2S, and he was get-, ting £l3 10s per month as a seaman,” said the Senior-Detective. “Since then he has been hanging about town with undesirables. I have a receipt here from the Charitable Aid Board, which guarantees his board for a fortnight. I now find that other seamen have been doing the same thing in getting assistance from the Board. Accused is tit to go in the shafts of a dray. It is disgraceful for such a man to got assistance from the Charitable Aid Board like this.” Accused: That's not so. I was paid off the Kiwitea with compensation for an injured foot, and I can go to a job on Monday. Detective Hammond: He smokes between 2s and 3s worth of cigarettes a day, and lies in bed till 10.30 a.m. He has never been before the Court before. Mr. Hunt, <S.M.: Now look here, I will give you till Monday to, get to work, toherwise I will send you up above for three months. Detective Hammond then stated that until Monday was not very long to get work. Accused: I can get work by that time. Mr. Hunt: Well I will give you a week, but you will have to refund the money you got from the Charitable Aid Board. y Accused: Yes, I will do that.