VAGRANCY CHARGES.
> . ■ UXUSCAL FRATURES. (ratSS ASSOCIATION TELEOKAM.) AUCKLAND. March •_'•". Two vagrancy cha.r<i<;s with .somewhat nnusuai features v.c.re before the Magistrate's Court to-day. William P. Storey, a youn£ man who was for a time a parliamentary wmdidato forParneil, and who in other vray& was well known, was charged with vagrancy. V> hen the cape came on. the- police applied for a remand for a week, m> that aor-uu'd might be kent under medical observation. Accused's counsel strongly objected, arr! nsked for an immediate medical examination. This was a.iireod to. but as » result oi it. the doctors themselves aske>l for a work's remand, and the Court allowed this. In the second oa*e the poiii'e «-harj;ed a man named Mitchell with being without lawful means of support, and s»k! that Jip -was an ex-water«idor ami striker, who had n-oi been admitted to the v.cv: union, and who bad been idling about the wharf for many months pufit. usiusj objoctiouable lan--giia.se to new unionists. In oojsrt. how eve r. accused produrvd a bank book showing .CI SO stJiridinj; to his credit, and the MaciMrate paid that in tiuvw» very unusual rirrurnstaiuv.s fio oonld do noihinj; except di.'sh.jjs the ca.se.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15237, 26 March 1915, Page 6
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