SIX MONTHS EACH
ELDERLY VAGRANTS IN DOCK BOTH OLD OFFENDERS Alexander Mellis. with 53 previous convictions, and John Collie, with 26, sentence prisonment, having been convicted at the Police Court this morning on charges of being rogues and vagabonds having insufficient visible means of support and having been previously convicted as idle and disorderlv. Mellis. a labourer aged 67, pleaded guilty. " This man is one of our problems,” said Sub-Inspector McCarthy. “He is just out of gaol and he will insist on cadging in the streets. He has been drinking too.” Alellis had nothing to say. Collie, a labourer and bootmaker, aged 63, pleaded not guilty. T earn a little money every day,” he declared. Police evidence was to the effect that tho man had been arrested while sleeping in the grandstand at the Domain at midnight. He had been about the street for six months. Collie was convicted
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 926, 20 March 1930, Page 11
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149SIX MONTHS EACH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 926, 20 March 1930, Page 11
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