POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 286, 3 December 1925, Page 12

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Toynton, S.M.) "A TYPICAL PARASITE." "Here is an able-bodied young man who prefers the idle life and who lias not made much of an attempt to get work," said Chief' Detective Cummings about John Henry Fitzgerald, who pleaded guilty to a charge of being an idle and disorderly person with insufficient means of support. .Mr. Cummings said that accused had been found in possession of an illegal game with which lie took people down. He had previously been fined £H for tflaying "two up," £") for being found iii a gaming house, and £2 for tlieft. He was a typical parasite and should receive the maximum sentence. Accused Was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. A youth, Rupert George Bell, whose age was given as IG, pleaded guilty to several charges of breaking and entering and theft. In a statement given to Detective _McWhirter he admitted breaking into Tutt's shop in Symonds- Street and stealing a quantity of clothing, some of which he put on in the shop, leaving his old clothes behind. Accused was. committed... to the, Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. He is also to be dealt with at PalmerSton North afterwards, on other charges. : .