QUEER "VAG." CASES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 246, 26 March 1915, Page 5

QUEER "VAG." CASES.

A VAGRANT WITH £l5O.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night, .'' Two vagrancy charges with somewhat unusual features were before the Magistrate's Court to-day. William P. Storey, ■ a young man who wan for a time a Parliamentary candidate for Parnell, ami who in other ways was well known, was charged with vagrancy. When the ca3B came on the police applied for a remand for a week, so that accused might be kept under medical observation. Ad--' cused's counsel, strongly objecting, asked for an immediate medical examination.' This was agreed to, but as.the result of' it the doctors themselves asked for a week's remand, and the Court allowed this. In the second case, the police charged a man named Mitchell with being without lawful means of support, and said that he was an ex-watersidcr and striker who had not been admitted to the now union, and who had been idling about the wharf for many months past, using objectionable language to the new unionists. In Court, however, the accused produced a bank book showing £lso standing to his credit, and the Magistrate said that in these very 'unusual circumstances he could do nothing except dismiss the case.