"OWHAROA HERMIT."
"FILTHIEST MAN" IN COURT. LIVING ON STOLEN TURNIPS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.! WAIHI, this day. A remarkable story was told in the Police Court to-day, when Henry Wiles, known as the "Owharoa Hermit, -, was charged with being an incorrigible rogue and a vagabond. Senior Sergeant McLean said Wiles had lived on raw turnips and pumpkins stolen from an adjacent garden. He was the filthiest man that had ever appeared in the Waihi Police Court, and badly needed a complete "ctean-up." His extraordinary conduct of late had developed to such an extent that children were afraid to go to school.
Wiles was sent to Mount Eden for six months.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1927, Page 11
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