MEN SLEEPING OUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 19

MEN SLEEPING OUT.

TWO FOUND BY POLICE. "SHOULD BE PUT AWAY." 6LNTLMES OF THREE MONTHS. Sleeping out, even on these mild sumDH'i cM'iiin-s, was considered by Mr. Hunt, S.M., to have a detrimental effect niKin two men, Krnest Edward Cuth-bcrt.-on Maxey, 4H, and Ivan Koos, who apponrnil at the Police Court this mornin;.'. Beth were charged with being idle HM.I 'h-.ido.ly and having insufficient means or support. Mhxpv was found in Albert Park last evening and said he had been sleepin« out a stood d ea i lately> in the Domai ° and tl.e various parks. The principal reason was that he was out of ready cash and had not been doing any work fur some time. -[ .-,,1 lapsed," said Maxey from the dock, where he looked much older than his years. His hand was shaking as he held his worn-looking hat. _ One of .Maxey's misfortunes was his inclination to drink too heavily, and he miid he had procured a bottle'of medicine to assist in breaking himself of the llHlllf.

Sub-Inspector McCarthy eaid the prisnner had <i 7 previous convir-tions. He lad been on "the island" and was in an Unsound state of health.

Maxey was sentenced to three months Ivan Koos, a Dalmatian, of wiry phy-ique and hardened by his life in the open, pleaded lie had not been guilty of misdemeanour, although a constable had found him at 2 o'clock this mornin" Sleeping on an embankment. Taken to the police station he spent the rest of the night in quarters and had a smile as he stepped into the dock Nub-Tnspeetor McCarthy said Roos had been sleeping out for the past fortnight, and had evidently lnade up his mind to exist without work. He had been arrested for the same offence on several occasions. "There is only one possible thing to do with that class of man and that is to put him away for a lengthv period" eaid Mr. Hunt. S.M. * Roos was sentenced to three months. The magistrate observed that men of accused's type could be kept at "the island" for £1 a week, and do useful work.