KEPT POLICE BUSY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 10

KEPT POLICE BUSY

GROUNDLESS COMPLAINTS AGAINST MEN PROBATION FOR YOUTH The extraordinary story of a youth who made serious but quite groundless allegations against a number of men was told in the Police Court, this morning by Chief-Detective Hammond when Frederic Clark was charged with vagrancy. Clark, a stable hand, aged IS. pleaded guilty to being idle and disorderly, having placed himself in Commerce Street to beg alms. “He is a bad boy/* declared the chiefdetective. “He made revolting and untruthful statements to the police about men who, he said, had been taking him out in .motor-cars. He lias been living with his grandmother but require. 6; to be put under some form of restraint.” The probation officer recommended a term of probation. “If he does not behave —” Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M.: He will go to Borstal. Give him plenty to do and, if I see him again, he will eertaily go to the Borstal. Make him report twice a week—once on Saturday afternoons or some other time that is inconvenient. If we were in the country I should order him to clean up the sergeant’s back yard once a week.” Clark was admitted to probation for 12 months and warned by the magistrate of the consequences of any further offence.