ROGUE’S PUNISHMENT FITTED HIS CRIME
IMPOSED ON RELIEF DEPOT Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. Mallick Joseph Dohney, a single mar. 50 years of age, pleaded guilty to-day to being a rogue and vagabond, in that, between June 11 and August 28, he imposed on the citizens’ relief depot and obtained food and clothing. The police evidence showed that the accused had £354 in the Savings Bank at the time when he applied for and secured £2 10s worth of .relief goods The defence was that the man had been unemployed and thought he was entitled to relief. After the case had been adjourned for a time the magistrate convicted accused and ordered him to come up for sentence provided he paid £lO tc* the unemployment fund.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 15
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125ROGUE’S PUNISHMENT FITTED HIS CRIME Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 15
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