IDLE AND DISORDERLY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 265, 5 August 1931, Page 5

IDLE AND DISORDERLY

Undesirables Dealt With

“They’d hang you if they got a chance,” said Patrick Joseph Carr, a labourer, aged 25, in the Police Court yesterday, glancing, at Senior-Sergeant Edwards as a representative of the Police Force. Carr was charged with being idle and disorderly, but he pleaded not guilty, and the senior-sergeant called four witnesses. Their evidence satisfied Mr. E. Page, S.M., that the charge had been established, and he convicted Carr, sentencing him to three months’ imprisonment. To a further charge of obstructing Senior-Sergeant Scott in the execution of his duty Carr pleaded guilty ani was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. The sentences were made concurrent.

Said to be somewhat unstable, Herbert Henry Leonard Timms, a labourer, aged 21, pleaded guilty to. being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient lawful means of support. He had been arrested iby a police sergeant in Tory Street at 12.40 a.m. on Saturday and locked up in his own interests as he had no money and no place to go. A medical report was furnished to the magistrate in connection with his case, and Timms’s mother was called as a witness. On her agreeing to take accused home, the magistrate convicted him and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within two years. This was done on condition that he returned straightaway with his mother to Palmerston North.

Theresa Russell, aged 46 (Mr. Jackson), pleaded not guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly. She was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called tipcu within 12 months, a condition being that she left Wellington yesterday.