NIGHT PROWLER
SENT HOME TO PAPAKURA ASKED POLICE FOR BED Said by Constable Watts to be prowling about the streets at night for no obvious reason, James Arthur Reid, a labourer, aged 47, was charged at the Police Court this morning with vagrancy. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. The constable said that, a few nights ago, the man had come to the watch-house at the police station asking for a bed. “We turned him out,” he said. Mr. F. X. Hunt, S.M.: And last night you turned him in. Reid said that he had money. He had recently been hit on the head with a bottle. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that the man had 29 previous convictions for theft and vagrancy mostly. He had been before the court in June and July, altogether, three times this year. Chief-Detective Hammond said that the man was harmless as long as he stayed in the country where be worked near Papakura. He was a married man living apart from his wife. * The magistrate asked Staff-Captain Holmes, of the Salvation Army, to look after the man and see that he left immediately for the country.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 859, 31 December 1929, Page 1
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198NIGHT PROWLER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 859, 31 December 1929, Page 1
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