IDLE AND DISORDERLY
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day,
"He's a bit of a Buffalo Bill, and wears a wide-brimmed hat," was the Senior Detective's description of Francis Edgar Burgess (19), a seaman, who pleaded guilty this morning to "oeing idle and disorderly.
"Since he has been paid off the Kiwitea with a month's wages,'amounting to £13 10s, Burgess has been hanging about the town with undesirables, and is in receipt of charitable • aid, which is disgraceful for an able-bodied man fit to go into the shafts of a dray," continued the Senior Detective. "He smokes between two and three shillings' worth of cigarettes daily, and lies in bed till 10.30 a.m.'"
The accused said that he was paid off with compensation for air injured foot, and'could get a job on Monday.
Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: "Unless you start work on Monday I "11 send you up, above for three months."
The Senior Detective observed that the notice was rather short, whereon Mr. Hunt made it a week, on the condition that Burgess refunded tho money obtained from the Charitablo Aid Board.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1926, Page 10
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187IDLE AND DISORDERLY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1926, Page 10
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