DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 71, 26 March 1915, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

QUEER "VAC" CASES. Pee Press Association. Auckland, March 25. Two vagrancy charges with somewhat unusual features were before the Magistrate's Court to-day. William P. Storey, a young man who was for a time a Parliamentary candidate for Parnell, and in other ways was well known, was charged with vagrancy.. When the case came on the police applied for a remand for a week, so that accused might be kept under medical observation. Accused's coun, sel, strongly objecting, asked for an immediate medical examination. This was agreed to, but as the result of it the doctors themselves asked for a week's remand, and the Court allowed this.

In the second ease, the police charged n man named Mitchell with being without lawful means of support, and said that he was an ex-watersider and striker who had not been admitted to the new union, and who had been idling about the wharf for many months past, using objectionable language to the new unionists. In Court, however, the accused produced a bank book showing £l5O standing to his credit, and the Magistrate said that in these very unusual circumstances he could do nothing except dismiss the case.