DRUNKEN RELIEF WORKER

Evening Star, Issue 21033, 22 February 1932, Page 5

DRUNKEN RELIEF WORKER

MAN SENT TO PRISON " He has become quite a pest," said Sub-inspector Cameron in the Police Court this morning when Thomas Jones was charged with drunkenness, his third similar offence within, six months. The sub-inspector added that the defendant went to his lodgings at 5.30 on Saturday afternoon and made a general nuisance of himself. Ho was a relief worker and was paid on Saturday. When he arrived home on Saturday in an intoxicated condition he paid 6s for board for a week for himself and his wife. He had paid only 10s the previous week. Immediately he got paid ho drank the money, and he had given no money to his wife for some time. He was previously dealt with for making a false statement under the Unemployment Act, when he Was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on, and he was ordered to make restitution. He had paid back very little, and it did not appear as if ho was trying to do much. The Magistrate said the defendant seemed a hopeless sort, and in view of it being his fourth conviction within six months he would bo sentenced to a week's imprisonment. A prohibition order, would al§g ,&e issugL