TWO MEN DEPORTED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 19, 23 January 1926, Page 13

TWO MEN DEPORTED

UNDESIRABLE AUSTRALIANS

SENT HOME.

(■1 TIIIORAPB — PREBB ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 22ncl January.

"These two men are professional pickpockets, each with long criminal histories in Australia," said ChiefDetective Cummings, in introducing to Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., at the Police Court this morning Harry Smith and Philip Ensworth Smith, two young men, both of whom were presented for sentence on charges of trasp£ssing on the Takapuna racecourse during the progress of a race meeting, and with being idld and disorderly persons who habitually consorted with reputed thieves. The chief detective added that the Smiths had come here from Australia. They had convictions recorded against them for various offences in nearly all the Australian States, and had served numerous terms of imprisonluent. Thoy had now agreed to leave Hew Zealand by the Marama, and the matter rested with the Magistrate to decide.

Mr. Poynton: '-'Have they any money to pay their own fares?'' ' Chief-Detective Cummings: "Oh yes, sir, they have plenty, and can talk in hundreds."

M>. Poynton, on the charge of trespassing, lined each accused £5 and costs, and also convicted and ordered them to come up for sentence when called upon on (he charges of vagrancy. Each will bo kept in custody, nnd placed on board the Marama when that .vessel leaves Auckland for Sydney to-morrow.