“I’VE FINISHED UP”
VAGRANT SURRENDERS TO POLICE His resources depleted, and with no prospect of food and shelter, a young clerk, Cyril Albert Cope, decided to give himself up to the police. ‘lts difficult to know what to do with him, said Sub-Inspector Cameron, when the man appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of vagrancy. "He ,^ as , CJI walking tbo streets for a night or two, and gave himself up at 7.15 p.m. yesterday. Ho camo out here some tune ago with .£lOO, but could not obtain work Moro that amount a .. -■'.'K’’sted. . , . In iny opinion ho does not want work.” Asked whether he had any explanation to make, accused slowly answered: "I’ve finished up.” His Worship (sharply): What do you IPPfI.U ? Accused hesitated, and then mumbled that ho had done ai’l ho could. Tho Magistrate recorded a conviction and ordered accused to come up tor sentence if called upon in twelve months. “If ho does not take the work gjivon him,” added His Worship, bring him up for sentence.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 256, 24 July 1924, Page 5
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