THE WRONG MAN
BEGGAR ACCOSTS HIM TWO MONTH’S GAOL Begging is a profession that requires a certain amount of discrimination, particularly in the selection of the most profitable mark. MELLIS displayed a deplorable lack of that essential quality when he asked Detective Nalder for a shilling to buy a meal, in Victoria Street yesterday. He might have known that policemen a#e the last people beggars should way-lay. He knows it now, for the detective who had already had complaints about Mellis from other people, promptly “ran him in.” Then it was discovered that up to 3.15 p.m. the beggar had collected 11s 2d from sympathetic passers-by. The fact that he had 33 previous convictions and that he came out of gaol only a little more than a week ago after serving a sentence for being idle and disorderly, did not weigh in Mellis’s favour. “It is hard to get work,” he pleaded, “things are bad. I can’t get work.” “Yes,” said Mr. W. R. McKean. S.M.. “they’ve been bad for a long time to judge from your list.” The magistrate’s next words assured Mellis that he would be relieved of all anxiety regarding work and the means of keeping body and soul together for the next two months.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 67, 10 June 1927, Page 1
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