CAMP OR GAOL?

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 7

CAMP OR GAOL?

" WHICH DO YOTT PREFER ? »

SINC T .l MAN'S ATTITUDE,

During the hearing of a charge of vagrancy at the Onehunga Police Court this morning, some surprise was caused by the attitude of the accused, John S. Goodall, a single man, aged 23, who pleaded guilty. Sergeant S. A. Brown • said accused called at the Onehunga police station between 11 and 12 o'clock last night and demanded a bed, as he was destitute. He . was accordingly locked up.

Accused told the presiding justices, Messrs. J. E. Cowell and J. Laking, that he had been sleeping out. One night he was at the T.B. shelter, _ and on another he walked about all night. Asked why he did not go into camp, he said it did not appeal to him, although he was registered at Hamilton.

Goodall's father, who was in Court, said his son did not drink. Accused: Yes, I do. Asked where he got the money to buy liquor, he said, "Oh, I work sometimes and then have a drink or two."

Pressed by the Bench to say why he did not go into camp, he smiled and made no reply.

"Well," said tie chairman, "you would have work and money if you were in camp. As you are not there, and are without means, it must be camp or gaol. Which do you prefer?

Accused (smiling): Oh, anything does me.

On being ordered to come up for sentence within one month if he does not

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