POLICE COURT
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24. (Before Messrs A. Lowrie and R. Ferguson, J.P.s.) IDLE AND DISORDERLY. Protesting vigorously that he was able to find work, Thomas Farrell pleaded not guilty to being an idle and disorderly person in that ho had insuificicnt lawful visible means of support. Sergeant Dunlop prosecuted, evidence being given by Constable Fitzgibbon, who said that he had arrested the accused at 1.10 a.in. to-day. He had been knocking about the streets, not w’orking, and was out at all hours of the night. He had no fixed place of abode. . Corroborative evidence was given by Constable Potts. The accused, in evidence, made a long rambling statement, asserting that ho was working. His tale failed,to impress, however, for he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. DRUNKENNESS. Two first offenders for drunkenness were each fined 20s, in default fortyeight hours’ imprisonment, and a_ third first offender was fined 22s 6d, in default forty-eight hours. Charles Woodward, for drunkenness, ■was fined 22s 6d, in defauii V
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Evening Star, Issue 19748, 24 December 1927, Page 6
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175POLICE COURT Evening Star, Issue 19748, 24 December 1927, Page 6
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