MAN WHO ISN'T WANTED.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 111, 10 May 1919, Page 19

MAN WHO ISN'T WANTED.

EVEN BY GERMANY. "They won't have the man in the Army, they wont have lilm In bis native country. | and they won't have lilm 111 the country to , which he was deported; further, the Leeds' j police don't want him: i«i 1 don't know What la to become of the man," said v solicitor at Leeds Police Court. L He referred to the case of Joseph Myers j (31), who appeared on remand on a charge of a contravention of the Aliens Aci. At the previous hearing it wan stared j that the prisoner had purported to be a man of Ihe name of James Smith, hud registered In thnt name, and enlisted In the ltoy.il Fusiliers in Ireland, hut deserted In IMS. He was convicted nt Liverpool > Assizes on a charge of attempting to 1 procure a woman for Immoral purposes, and ' recommended for expulsion. On that occasion the prisoner had stated i chat he was n native of Berlin. On April ' 21 In the following year he was deported. ' but was not allowed to stay In Germany. i It had since been stated that the I prisoner was born at Vllna, in Russian I Poland, and was therefore a Russian su:i- > Ject, but the Russian authorities would not : have him. t Chief-Inspector Bradley read a letter from the Home Ollice suggesting that the c Court should send the man to a term or I) imprisonment for disregarding the deporta- a tlon order. This course was described by Mr. Willey I: as monstrous-, and the Magistrate, confess- c Ing himself puzzled, adjourned the case for;c the seventh time. i —=— r.