“BIRDS OF PASSAGE”
£lO IN FINES OR MONTH IN GAOL LITTLE TIME TO FIND MONEY (Special to THE SUN) MARTON, Friday. With a month’s gaol hanging over their heads unless they found £lO between them within four hours, two men who had been convicted and fined for assault left the dock at the Police Court this morning.
They were Harold William Stevenson (alias Harold Stevens, alias William Lamb, alias Harold Stephenson), and Walter Raymond Sutherland (alias William Sutherland, alias Tassie Sutherland), Both were described by the police as “birds of passage,” and had previous convictions. Stevenson, it was stated, got into an altercation with a drover in the Marion Hotel, and struck him. When the licensee, Mr. A. T. Gatrell, came on the scene, Sutherland made an unsuccessful attempt to hit him. Both were fined £5, and given four hours to find the money, default being fixed at one month’s gaol.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 12
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