VAGRANT FOR FORTY YEARS
"You have been a vagrant for forty years, according to your list. I'm sorry I can give you only three months' imprisonment, the maximum," said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, to Henry Edward Jefferd, alias Henry King, alias Henry Boss, a labourer, aged 68, who pleaded guilty to being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient lawful means of support.
Sub-Inspector C. E. Roach, who prosecuted, said that the defendant had a formidable list. He would not stay in a home, and had refused to be examined by a doctor or complete the papers necessary for him to obtain sustenance.
He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 6
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