CAUTION DISREGARDED.
VAGRANT WOMAN SENTENCED.
"Don't r you tell such stories, I'm not idle and I'm not disorderly either," said Agnes Kennedy (43) to the Police Court orderly' when the constable asked her how she pleaded to a charge of drunkenness and another of vagrancy. She pleaded not guilty. According tg the arresting constable, accused was on Saturday night found in a house with three men who were the. subject of police inquiries. Witness anc "another constable who gave evidence, ■aid that Kennedy had not been working lately, but had been hanging about the town. She had been cautioned and warned before. 7 Accused said she had been working for a gentleman in Newmarket until last week. She went to the house where the three men were to get her suit case. The magistrate told accused that only in February she was before the court when she was given a chance. She had been cautioned by the police, but had not heeded the warning. On the first charge accused was convicted and discharged, and on the other she was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 9
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