VAGRANTS SENTENCED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 79, 3 April 1926, Page 9

VAGRANTS SENTENCED

TmtßE JOT-RIDEBS CAUGHT.

(By Telepaph.—Pic3« Ai»oeiatioq,l . AUCKLAND, 2nd April. A day or two ago three young mcv, BichardThomas Jamioson (19), Bidnoy Silvester Pickott (23), and Joseph Patrick Hyland (25), climbed aboaTd a motor-car in Newmarket and drove to Te Kuiti, thuii breaking what is thought to be the Dominion's long distance joyriding record. Yesterday they were consigned to prißon for three monthg for conversion of a car valued at*£l2s, the property of Pizscy, Innia and Co., The same three,men were also charged with being idle and disorderly persons with insufficient lawful means of support, whilo :Pickett had to answer another charge of failing to comply-with the terms and conditions of his release on probation. The accuued pleaded guilty to all charges. In addition to receiving three months for conversion of the car, Pickctt was given another throe months for a breach of his probation order, sentences to bo cumulative. On the vagrancy charges they were convicted and ordered to coino up for sontonco when called upon".

FOUR UNDESIRABLES.

CHRISTCHURCH, 2nd April. Four undesirable, two men and two women, were arrested by tho police : on Wednesday at Now Brighton, where ihoy had been living in a bach. Their names were May Faithful, alias Mary Siden, aged 3S; Elizabeth Ryan, alias Gillies, aged 55; Charles Brown, nged 56; Arthur Gorham, alias Gorman, alias Henderson, alias Healy, alias Smith,' alias Anderson, aged 4". Faithful and Brown were each sentenced t«i twelve months' imprisonment on a charge of being idle and disorderly; Eyan was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for consorting with thieves and to threo months for theft, tho sentences to be concurrent; and Gorham to twelve months' for consorting, and three months for brcakin? a window, the sentence to be cumulative. William Thompson, aged 43, described as an undesirable, who hung around railway stations picking up men from tho country and living on them, also appeared before the Magistrate's Court and was sentenced to threo months' hard labo«»