"SHOULD BE DEPORTED."

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1926, Page 6

"SHOULD BE DEPORTED."

A DEFECTIVE DALMATIAN. PROBLEM TO THE POLICE. Anthony Yella (48), has always been a problem for the Auckland police. Merely a vagrant with no criminal tendencies, whenever he makes his appear- j ance before the Police Court there is ' always a conference between Bench and ] police as to the best way to deal with ', him. When Yella appeared before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., at the Police Court this morning for sentence on a charge of being an idle and disorderly j person, with insufficient lawful visible ! means of support, Sergeant Calwell told: j the magistrate that it was difficult to j know just what to do with Yella. j The sergeant added that the leading Dalmatian citizens of Auckland had been ' seen, but had stated that they could I not do anything for Yelia, their fellow countryman. His relatives were wealthy people and everybody had done their best to assist him, but their efforts j were fruitless. j Mr. Poynton: He's a defective and is) only a burden on the country. He should really be deported. Sergeant Calwell: The other Dalmatians say that they would do something I for Yella, but they consider that it is his relatives place to help him. Of course Yella has been convicted of •' vagrancy before. ( Remarking that Yella presented a problem, the magistrate sentenced him to imprisonment at Mount Eden for three months. === l