IDLE & DISORDERLY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 5

IDLE & DISORDERLY

PRISON SENTENCE IMPOSED. “ACCUSED A PROBLEM.” Appearing in the Master ton Police Court yesterday afternoon on a charge of being idle and disorderly, with insufficient lawful means of support, Jack Bennett was sentenced by Messrs L. J. Taylor and W. H. Saunders, J.’sP. to a month’s imprisonment. The accused pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett said the accused was somewhat of a problem. He had lived around the district for a gr’eat many years at Homewood. Te Ore Ore and other places, and had been on several occasions an inmate of the Old Men’s Home at Greytown. As he had caused much trouble at the home the Wairarapa Hospital Board would not have him back. He had been living lately at Te Ore Ore, and natives had been supplying him with food. He was not in very good health. The only thing to do with him, said the Senior-Sergeant, appeared to be to give him a short term of imprisonment. He had had no food for the past three or four days, until he was given some at midday that day. It might be possible to make arrangements’when he got to Wellington to 1 put him in a home there. He claimed to have come originally from Ceylon ' and to be of Portguese descent. | The Bench sentenced the accused to a month’s imprisonment at Wellington. I Mr Taylor said it seemed to be a pretty hard thing to do to send him to goal, but it was for his own benefit, and there appeared to be no alternative. He would be looked after, and arrangements might be made for his future care.