CLEANED UP

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 170, 6 April 1923, Page 6

CLEANED UP

MAGISTRATE DIDN’T KNOW HIM

After spending a few days in custody for tho 'purpose of being thoroughly “spruced up,” a middle-aged labourer named John Robert Stringer came before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, for sentence on a charge of vagrancy. - “This is the man,” explained ’SubInspector Cummings “who was remanded for a clcan-up.” His Worship: Ho has been cleaned up! I did not recognise him. Tho .accused it was stated had been in the habit of picking up discarded cigarette ends in the street and smoking them. He had done no work for three weeks and was devoid of means. Tho police had succeeded in obtaining emplovment for him and he would have no difficulty in retaining the position provided he kept himself clean. “Sometimes,” added Mr. Cummings, “housed to sleep in sheds and earned for himself the name of ‘Dirty Jim.’ ” His Worship: He’ll have a month to be cleaned up in if ho doesn’t behave himself. Sub-Inspector Cummings: I hope ho will try to earn tho name of “Clean Jim.” in future. The Magistrate recorded a conviction and ordered the accused to come up fpr sentence when called upon, a condition being that ho proceeded to work immediately.