Found Lying Drunk With £1100 In His Pocket.
Pit Friday afternoon last a man was found by" the police lying, asleep "drurik, near the creek in Boundary-stroefc, not far from Te A-i'oha Post Office, and taken T&jflsnf sel^ef-Wo deposit 1 notes on 'khe hank for Lsoo' each werefyund in his pocket, a Savings Bank book shoeing LIOO to h,i's credit, LI S in notes and some silver, John Copeland, the possessor of so much money, is a carpenter by trade, and hails from Matamatn, where ho was in the employ of Air J. 0. Firth for over twenty yean, The only excuse he had to give for being found drunk was that the Te, Aroha whiskey ' had overcome him. He was brought up at the Police Court on Saturday, before Mr Dobson, J.P . who inflicteil a fine of 5s and costs, and admonished the accused for acting so foolishly, The fine was promptly paid and Copeland soon after left the township.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 403, 18 September 1889, Page 2
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161Found Lying Drunk With £1100 In His Pocket. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 403, 18 September 1889, Page 2
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