BURGLARY CHARGE FACED
MAORI REFUSED BAIL (PEBB3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, December 28. A Maori named George Frederick Murphy, who was allegedly wounded in conflict with the police, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day charged with being a rogue and a vagabond, and that ne was found in possession of housebreaking implements at Pokeno on December 5. He was also charged with breaking and entering the shop of the Farmers’ Trading Company at Pokeno with intent to commit a crime. Murphy, who had to be assisted into the dock by two policemen, was remanded until January 14. His counsel, Mr Sullivan, said that Murphy was still crippled as the result of being shot in the abdomen and had already been punished very severely. He had assured counsel that he had a complete answer to the charge. The magistrate (Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M.) refused bail.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21976, 28 December 1936, Page 4
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