OLD MAN'S TROUBLES
. Saying he had no means, no friends, and nowhere to go,. Alfred Briekell, aged 57, walked into the Mount Cook Police Station last night and asked what he was to do.
When Briekell appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in, the Magistrate's Court to-day, Constable Smith told the Magistrate that the accused had said he had slept put and walked the streets on the previous night. He had been in the Salvation Army Home at Miramar for about twelve months, but as he had made himself objectionable there he had been asked to leave. He had something wrong with his feet, and had teen unable to work, so the Salvation Army had kept him.
The Magistrate remanded the accused for sentence until to-morrow, so that the police can make inquiries us to who-' ther the Salvation Army, authorities Kill ±afca Mm back.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 20 May 1930, Page 11
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