TO GAOL FOR SUSTENANCE
"We can't have you wandering about the streets in weather like this without food. Better gaol than that," said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, when Albert Henry George, a bushman, aged 60, pleaded guilty to being idle and disorderly, in that he had insufficient means of support. .
Sub-Inspector J. A. Dempsey said that in the early hours of April 24 the defendant was found near the police station, and/was given a meal in the station. He left again, but at 5 a.m. was found in Waring-Taylor Street. He said that he was destitute, and felt safer near the police station.
The accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 11
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120TO GAOL FOR SUSTENANCE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 11
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