THE GUMDIGGER'S WAY

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 7

THE GUMDIGGER'S WAY

OF SPENDING HIS CASH. AND OTHERWISE LOSING IT. The way the enjoys himself when he comes to town was well illustrated by the evidence in a ca«e before Mr. ¥. V. Fraze.r, SJM.. thm morning, when Walter (',. P. Gaudin 142) was charged that on Monday week he Mole £."> from the person of Charles fLnndon, a from Houhora.

Lundon'a story wan that he landed in Auckland on the morning of Saturday fortnight with about CIS in his pockets. He on t (laudin tiiat night in the Aurora Hotel, and had a driak with him. He met <»audin Rgain at S a.m on Monday in Albert Str.M-t. <"iajidin bad no money, and they viMted several hoteln and had ■ number of drink*, l.undon paying nil the time. (Jaudiii Kaid he had no money, ••nd wanted *onic drink and v fiTd. Altout U-ri hi IfH-k in the morning they reached the Aurora Hotel, and he Mipponed they lu>l a ilnnk. (iaJidm a>k«-J him to g,. lo lux home, and took him to a pUec lie <oul I not rind egiin. There »■».. only otir room in the (iaudin «rnt away to -it soidi 1 drink, ami then lyiind.m found that he was Iw-ked in the room, and alwi thiit one of ftip two note* he had had in the irihide l>rea.*t pocket of lik> r<,ji v.n» mijisjng. Wlteti iaudin cam>' hack with a ftsjk of whisky Lundon would n. i lu\e any, and went l«)l In reply to Mi C MrA'eagh. Lundon adiniited that on tS<- firnt Saturday he in t/jnn he w:l» ri-ling round 11> a taxi »i'h a man he didn't know, and hr pajH for the ta\' »nd the ririnks they had (In thr >iind») he had only one bottle of rw-er lie g3\r a t-lranser JCI to get him l«er. and >>aw no more <i( Ihe stringer or o( tlic money Since he left (.aiidin h<- had rwen twice arn'strd for drunkenneß... on Tnesduy and Wednesday la-t week Hγ had aU-n shouted for people. a;id piven h*!f rimim to one and arK>tlier " When he got out of cti*tody yefcterday. a(t*T «ome da.vs' medical treatrneut, he had £.'. 12, left. Hr had come So town, he taid. to we a doctor he had c->n bamptiOfl. He could not n'memrx-r \ery well what lii» minement* were on the Saturdtv m qjejtinn )u.-t about tbe time he" went lo the Aurora Hotel, or where he went to out he left l.audin'* {.|m-<\ Walter Tark*-r. at thVurora Hotel. »-ard that it «n about .'! p m. ii !im Candin and l.undon calle.l at the hotel <.n the Monday, and he rehw.l to serve *.o the two went »-.<rav. Ak tb.-y were yi.ncr out lie licanl (iaudin say nometbin,? to the other man about i-> or a £-'• tioto. but he cookl not Ray eiaitly what the re mark waf. Witnraw did not t!>en know that (iaudin was prohibited. At tbi» »u?f tbf SeniofSerpaaDt in thai the onU other e%idenct-

vi* that of the arresting conotab'c. and l.undan's Ktatrjitrnt to him was quite different from hie *i iderr o :n the box Hi* Worship «laU-d that that bens *o there nu no ran , »fiin*t '.laudin. end diM-harged him. remarking incidentally that the war of the "sponger" w»i eomctimo* difficult.