ROTO ROA ESCAPEE
APPEARANCE IN COURT CONTENT TO GO BACK “I made a mistake in leaving the Island,” said Reginald Overton Cookson at the Police Court yesterday. “I will go back now and stay as long as proves necessary.” Cookson, a neatly-dressed man of middle age, pleaded guilty on a charge of escaping from the inebriates* home on Roto Roa Island. Senior-Sergeant O’Grady recalled the fact that Cookson had been committed to the Island five months ap-. He had escaped by crossing to Cowes Bay on a raft, but had finally given himself up in Rotorua. Captain Holmes, of the Salvation Army, considered Cookson to be an inoffensive man and a good worker. Tic was prepared to go back to the Island. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: Does he real ise he is liable to a term of imprisonment? His is a bad example for the other men. Cookson was ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months. “Take him straight back to the Island,” said the Magistrate as Cookson left the dock.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 13
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174ROTO ROA ESCAPEE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 13
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