BEGGING IN STREETS
Man Sent To Jail For Three Months After pleading guilty to a charge of being a rogue and vagabond, in that he placed himself in Dixon Street for the purpose of begging alms, Lindsay Duguid, labourer, aged 55. was sentenced by Mr. Stout. S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court. Wellington, yesterday, to three mouths’ jail with bard labour. Sub-Inspector 1.. R. Capp said a constable saw accused aedostiiig a matt in. Dixftu Street on Saturday night. Dugtim forced his attentions on this person aud asked three or four times for tilt l lout; of 1/-, stating that he wanted to buy a drink and that he was just about, dead. He subsequently caught, another man by the arm ami was warned by the constable, but took no notice tnd accost'd two other men.
Accused said Im had work waiting for him and asked for another '.’bailee Hadded that he had been in town for two weeks mid had consumed too ■oueli The magistrate: You don't 'tern to have done much in the past IG years, except work in jail.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 3
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