NOT SO CLEVER
YOUNG VAGRANT BREAKS THE LAW GIVEN A CHANCE James Fallon, who has been obtaining money from charitably inclined persons in Auckland by telling them that he wanted it to leave the. city, was spoken to severely by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the police Court this morning. Fallon, a labourer, aged 20, pleaded guilty to being idle and disorderly and having insufficient lawful means of support. Fallon’s history was outlined by Sub-Inspector McCarthy. “He worked his passage out to New Zealand not so long ago and landed at Napier,” he said. “He then came on to Auckland, but had no money, so visited a number of priests and other people, telling them that he needed money to pay his fare out to work in the country. Of course he spent it in the city, and eventually complaints were made to the police.” The sub-inspector considered that Fallon was not so clever as he thought he was, and that he had fallen in with companions who were more sophisticated than he was. Mr. Hunt ordered Fallon to come up for sentence within six months it called upon. “Remember,” he said, “if you come up again I can give you three months on this charge.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 11
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207NOT SO CLEVER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 11
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