INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 1

INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE

“ALWAYS IN AND OUT OF GAOL” YEAR’S IMPRISONMENT He is always in and out of gaol.” said Sub-Inspector McCarthy of George Ross, a carpenter, aged 33, who pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to being an incorrigible rogue and vagabond, having insufficient visible means of support and having been previously convicted as a rogue and vagabond. Ross, who was very poorly clad, and whose face was framed with a thick stubble of beard, was said by the subinspector to have been 13 times convicted on vagrancy charges. He had done terms of three and six months, but would not leave the city, and the only thing to do was to put him away for a long stretch. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., sentenced hint to 12 months' imprisonment, remarking that he would be better off on a farm or on one of the islands in the Gulf. BELLIGERENT PRISONER Charged with being a rogue and a. vagabond. Joseph Merrick. a driver, aged 42. took up a defiant attitude in the dock. 'You can be tried by a jurv if you wish, or would you rather be dealt with here?” asked the clerk. "You will find you have a lot to deal with.” answered Merrick, adding that he would prefer a Tribunal higher even ' than judge and jury. As a result of accused s remarks, the magistrate ordered him to be remanded for a week for medical observation