RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT
THIS DAY. (Before Captain Skeene, J.P.) VAGRANCY. ,
John Milton, alias Melton, alias Wilson, was charged under the Vagrant Act with being a vagrant, and with soliciting and receiving alms by false pretences. Several witnesses were called to prove thai the prisoner was in the habit of visiting houses in the absence of the men, and applying for alms from their wives. U Sergeant-MnjorO'Grady proved several previous convictions against the prisoner for "similar offences, and a case of larceny in 1877, and also informed the Court that the prisoner had but recently come from from Mount Eden Gaol, and that during the time he had been on the Thames he had done no work, but had been drinking and loafing about.
The Bench considered the offence clearly prored, and sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment with hard labor.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3742, 22 December 1880, Page 2
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141RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3742, 22 December 1880, Page 2
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