“PROFESSIONAL CADGER”
THREE MONTHS’ GAOL COUNTER-LUNCH EXISTENCE “Eh?” ejaculated Peter O’Malley. He gaped at Mr. Hunt. S.M., who had just pronounced the fatal words “three months” from the Bench in the Police Court this morning. He appeared almost stunned, and left the dock in a dazed way. “A professional cadger of the worst type,” was how* Constable Butler described him. “He is always under the influence of liquor, and lives on coun-ter-lunches.” “Can you tell me where a man can get a job in this country?” asked O’Malley, in his rolling brogue. Nobody could —or did. “He did 18 months on Roto Roa Island,” Constable Buckley told the court, “and the day he came off lie was locked up for being drunk.” “Beg y’r pardon,” said O’Malley to the magistrate, waving his hand in the direction of P.C. Buckley. “This rnan promised me last Friday that he’d pinch me.” “Well, he warned you, anyway,” Mr. Hunt replied. “Three months’ imprisonment.” £l, or three days, was the penalty for the charge of drunkenness.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 24, 20 April 1927, Page 3
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