CRIPPLED AND DUMB

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 993, 9 June 1930, Page 16

CRIPPLED AND DUMB

SLEEPING CURLED UP ON SACKS HAD TO BE ARRESTED Said by Sergeant Clark to have been living on a few coppers given him by a kindly man in whose shed he slept, curled up like a dog on a few sacks, George Glover, dumb and crippled, appeared at the Police Court this morning. Staff-Captain Holmes, of the Salvation Army, promised to look after the man. Glover, a labourer, aged 41, was charged with being idle and disorderly having insufficient lawful means of support. He had Is 8d when arrested, that sum having been given him for a meal. Sergeant Clark explained that Glover had been hit on the head with a bottle by a woman ten years ago and his disabilities dated from then. He was dumb and crippled, but not deaf. He had been sleeping in Gabriel’s Fish Market and Mr. Gabriel had given him an ocasional shilling with which to buy food. Glover would not wash. He was in a filthy state, and that was one of the reasons witness had brought him in. Last night he had been seen wandering about the town. A constable spoke to him and he was next seen asleep in the tramway shelter near St. Paul’s Church. He had been shifted on from there, and was discovered curled up in a doorway in Albert Street. “He is just a derelict,” commented Sub-Inspector Shanahan. Agreeing, the magistrate once again regretted that the projected rest home scheme was not under way. Accused was just the sort of man for whom the home would cater, he said. Glover was convicted and discharged, being handed over to the care of the • Salvation Army.