ISLAND DREAM ENDED
PRISONER’S SET-BACK GAOL FOR SNEAK THIEF I? RNEST EDWARD COX, aged u 44, at the Police Court to-day nominated Roto Roa as his place of residence for the next few months. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., had other ideas, and he’s staying inland until December. Cox pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, breach of a prohibition order, and theft of a hat valued at £2„ Senior-Sergeant Edwards s&3& that the order had been broken five times since July, and Cox had 74 general convictions against him. Chief-Detective Cummings said that accused was a sneak-thief, and he had recently served a sentence for stealing a hat. Cox: I would ask your "Worship to let me go to the Island on my own application.
The Magistrate: You’ll go somewhere else on my application—three months' Imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 157, 23 September 1927, Page 13
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136ISLAND DREAM ENDED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 157, 23 September 1927, Page 13
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