127 CONVICTIONS
METHYLATED SPIRITS ADDICT
GOAL FOR TWO MONTHS
No attentive Court orderly need warn Charles McGeahan to look out for the step as he enters the Police Court dock. He stood in it for the 127th time this morning and faced charges of vagrancy and drunkenness.
McGeahan, a labourer aged 57, admitted that he had a few drinks, but emphatically denied that he was idle and disorderly or had insufficient lawful means of support. Constable Stephens, of Freeman’s Bay, told the- Court that he found McGeahan drinking methylated spirits on the Nelson Street Wharf last evening. The man never did any work and was a nuisance about the wharves. The fishermen would throw him a couple of fish which he would dispose of to buy drink. “He sleeps in an old fish-shop r on the scows and is always half drunk,” concluded the constable. McGeahan: Drink is my only trouble. Give me a chance just this once. Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M.: You have 126 previous convictions. I will give you a chance to get the methylated spirits out of your system. McGeahan was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on the charge of being found drunk. On the count of vagrancy he was convicted and discharged.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 16
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207127 CONVICTIONS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 16
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