CARRYING IRON PIPE
CHARGE OF VAGRANCY A FUTILE PROSECUTION (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. An unusual case was heard at th# Police Court to-day, when Joseph Wih» son, aged 31 years, was changed with being an idle and disorderly person with insufficient means of support, and with being in possesion of an iron pipe. The police said that accused met a man named Murray last evening, ana demanded £5. Afterwards they walked to a boarding house owned, by Alice Shaw, and were invited in to tea. Murray admitted that he allowed accused to walk behind him with tn® PiP<^ Alice Shaw deposed that she invitea accused indoors, and saw nothing tintoward in his manner.
Mr. W. J. King, for accused, contended the prosecution was camouj flaged. Accused had come out ot hospital in the morning. He had been working, and had a job to go to. » was well-dressed and respectable, and the only evidence supporting the
charge was that of Murray. Counsel submitted there was no case against the accused. .. In denying the charges, accused he picked up the pipe for use in connection with a patent. The case was dismissed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 12
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