UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES
Pleading guilty to a charge of being found without lawful excuse on enclosed premises at 5 Frederick Street, Louisa Findlay, a domestic aged 50, appeared before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today.
Senior-Sergeant J. A. Dempsey stated that the premises, which were unoccupied, had been visited by the police in response to complaints received. The accused had been found there in possession of methylated spirits and smelling strongly of alcohol. She had expressed a desire ,to go to Pakatoa Island.
A second charge was entered of being an idle and disorderly person, in that she had insufficient lawful means of support, and to this also the accused pleaded guilty.
On the first charge the accused was convicted nnd ordered to come up for sentence wihtin twelve months if called upon, and on the second she was sentenced to two years on Pakatoa Island, subject to a medical examination proving satisfactory.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 68, 20 March 1936, Page 11
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