LOITERER ARRESTED.
SENTENCE POSTPONED.
(By Telegraph'—Own Correspondent.)
HAMILTON, this day.
While in Victoria Street last night, Constable Sutherland noticed a man loitering in the water channel between a telegraph post and a large unattended motor car. The police officer questioned him, and, deeming his answers unsatisfactory, arrested him on a charge of vagrancy. The man, by name William Wilson, stated that-he had spent the previous night on the river bank, and intended to do the same last night.
In the Police Court this morning Wilson pleaded not guilty to the charge of vagrancy.
Senior Sergeant Sweeney said that Wilson's explanation was that he had got work at Newstead, and had earlier m the day sent out his personal effects, and when arrested he was waiting for a car to take him out.
The magistrate said defendant had been on the spree" at Katikati, and was before the Court at Whakatane and Gisborne. He convicted him, but postponed the sentence, saying that if defendant aid not go to work he would receive a sentence he would remember.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 13
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