POLICE COURT, CAMBRIDGE. Tuesday.—(Before Captain Corbett, J.P.) Vagrancy.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1841, 24 April 1884, Page 3

POLICE COURT, CAMBRIDGE. Tuesday.— (Before Captain Corbett, J.P.) Vagrancy.

; Three men named John Hcmpenstall, Chas. Brown, and Harry Dunn were I „ charged with being found on the pi e\ions evening without l.isvful excuse m an outb6u.se used as a h;iy shed, belonging to Mr Robt. Kirk Wood, adjoining the l)uke of Cambridge Hotel. The pi isoners pleaded 1 not guilty. The evidence of John rascoe, Robt. Kirkwood, and Frederick Ree\es showed that they (accused) had not received permission to sleep in the hay shed. Hempenstall, it appeared, was an old offender, and Dunn had been loafing about the town in a vagi ant state for some time. When found in the shed the tlnee weie huddled up together nndei one old blanket, with a straw pillow neatly ari.iugod. The bench in passing sentence said it was detei - mined to put dou n thus \ ci y daugci ous soi t 1 'of vagrancy. In tin- c\s> tlnee men, stian gers to the place, come into the town, and , Without permission take themselves in a possibly drunken condition into the hay ohed of an hotel, wheie theclt.uice-.iire \ery great they may lay the foundation of a very destructive tire, and not only endangei the lives of themselves, but the lives and pro perty of the whole community. Such a practice as this would ha\c to lie put a stop to. and his Woi&hip hoped that the punishment which he felt called upon to inflict in this case would be a warning to othein of a vagrant inclination. He would sentence the three prisoners to three months in Mount Eden Gaol with hard labour.