ONLY TWO MONTHS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 68, 22 March 1927, Page 9

ONLY TWO MONTHS.

PRISONER DISAPPOINTED! ASKS MAGISTRATE FOR MORE. PREFERS GAOL TO STARVATION. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON", this day. A sentence of two months' imprisonment was a disappointment to a burly seaman, Arthur George McGuiness, today. "Is that all von can give me!" he asked of Mr. Page, S.M. "Can't you make it another ten?" Accused was charged with having wilfully damaged a plateglass window, worth £40, belonging to Herbert J. Harrop. "I did it deliberately," he said, "and I did it go that 1 could get something to eat. There are a lot more of us in the same way, walking up and down all day looking for work which we can't get." "It's immaterial to me where Pm tried," said McGuiness when the clerk told him he could, if desired, go to the Supreme Court. Mr. Page, S.M.: You will hare to decide. McGuiness: Well. 11l be tried here^ The case for the police was that accused one night was seen by a constable in Cuba Street to deliberately put his foot through a window, calling to all and sundry, "I'll show you how to get jewellery." He made no attempt to take any articles, however, and when arretted he told the constable that New Zealand was the first country in which he had starved, and that he wanted to bo put away for a long period. Accused had been before the Court previously.