SLEPT OUT ON HILLS
Vagabond Sent to Prison
“This man hasn’t done any work since he left jail last November,” said Sub-lnspeetor C. E. Holnch, of John Arthur Muir, who appeared in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., and pleaded guilty to being a rogue and vagabond in that be had been pieviously convicted of being idle and disorderly. “He has been sleeping out on the hills at Mornington, and goes down to the wharf, where he gets in with ships’ crews for his food,” continued the subinspector. In March last he had been refused sustenance, having refused to go to camp. Lately, probably owing to his mode of living, he had been acting In an objectionable manner toward girls going to work. My. Mosley: You’ve been going on m this way for 12 or 13 years. Accused: Not all the time, sir. ’ Most of the time you have been in jail?—“No. I have not.” The magistrate: You are going to spdnd a long time in jail this time. Six months' imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 8
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177SLEPT OUT ON HILLS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 8
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