GAVE MONEY TO PRISONER
GRATEFUL MOTORIST FINED MEANT IT FOR THE WARDER (From Our Otcn Correspondent.) RAETIHI, Thursday. The ususual charge of having given money to a prisoner was made against Thomas J. Curtis in the Raetihi Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Chief-Warder Glynn, of Waikune
prison, said that while Curtis was on his way home from Pokako to Ohakuno his car got stuck in the mud near a place where prisoners were working at Maungaturuturu Viaduct, Pokako. The prisoners, assisted by a warder, helped defendant out of his difficulty, and before leaving he handed two halfcrowns to a prisoner who was undergoing a sentence of two years’ imprisonment. The prisoner in question said he did not know whether to keep the money or to hand it to the warder who was with them. Later he admitted that he had two half-crowns. Curtis admitted having handed a prisoner two half-crowns, but said be told him to give them to the “old man,” meaning the warder. Curtis was fined £2 and £1 costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 417, 27 July 1928, Page 7
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