GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE
With 3s 6d among them, four men were ■ discovered by a constable, at 3 a.m. yesterday sleeping; in one of the Harbour Board's sheds on the Thorndon Breastwork. They spent the rest of the night in the cells, and seven hours after their arrest, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to being found by night in enclosed premises. The accused—Patrick M'Cutcheon, aged 34; Robert Irving Hunter, aged 28; James Reilly, aged 27; and John M'Cauley, also aged 27—told Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., that they had been- locked out of the Salva-
tion Army. Hostel. "I'd paid for my bed, but I couldn't get in," .one:.of them said. Senior-Sergeant Lander said that, apart from convictions for drunkenness, and, in the caie of Hunter, for fighting, nothing was known against the accused. "If you are found.in such circumstance's again you will get a term," the Magistrate warned them. "You will each be convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within three months."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 14
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168GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 14
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