THE ARRESTED PICKPOCKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1927, Page 3

THE ARRESTED PICKPOCKETS.

TWO AUSTRALIANS TO LEAVE. RETURNING TO STDKET TO-DAY. i:.' KXATIOXAL MEX KKMAXDEH. Henry Morton «301 and (ieorpe Harris (281. two Australians, who only arrived early tlii« week from t li<- Commonwealth, did not enjoy a hm; Mav ia Auckland. By the time thi< appears in print they will be on their way back to Xew South Wales on the same >teamer which brought them to thc-9 shore*. Lsst Tuepday Morton and Harris were arrested by detectives on charpee of bein ? idle and disorderly persons with insufficient lawful mean* of support, pleading jrtiihy to tho charge the following morninp. To-day they ajpeared for pentence. wlien ( hicf j>efe.--tive_ Cinntninsr-s informed Mr. W. R. McKean. 5.31.. that both were profe— : sional pickpocket-, who "frankly admit-: ted that they came to Auckland in] follow their calling durir.p the Royal' visit. Mr. Cumminsrs produced their lien of previous conviction* in Australia. If piren a chance. Morton and Harris stated that they would return to Australia by today's Meamer. They lm,! money with bLK-Ij to pay lhclr own fares.

The manistraie told accused that they were liahle to three months" imprisonment on the charjre* to which they Ls<! T-lead-d guilty t>. They were' prohibited immigrant*, and the l.e-t ihinjr f'T them "■! do would he tn return. Eaoh «a« convicted and ordered to come up for sentence ■when called upon. Mr. Mc-Kean making an order that ther should remain in (-n-imly until the Vlimaioa -ail-. Other two Men Remanded. * William finely i3T ■. ali«!= Whitehall. ifi!.! Ju:r.c= <>\\"«-j] , 4<; . ;ilia = Sid. Morgan, al-o charged *\\h bein« idle and di-or.u-riy pfr-<.n- wit'.i in«-ufTi< irnt lawful means of .-upj.ort. whom the Chief Detective ye-terday a= interna:ii.r,al fTiminal- and j>iekjK«-ket s , ;)2iiin appeared. On nj'i lioation of Mr. Cummins:* they were further remanded until Mareli 4 «i :h;it i:iij-iirii - n.ii'h; lie Hindi- .il>onf. them.