LIVES LIKE GIPSY

Evening Star, Issue 23093, 20 October 1938, Page 23

LIVES LIKE GIPSY

VAGRANT ARRESTED HALF-HOUR STRUGGLE WITH CONSTABLE ‘ [Per United Press Association.] GISBORNE, October 19. “ He is a very disorderly person, a typical vagrant, and lives like a gipsy,” said Detective Belton when Julius Hansen, aged 41, a farmer, appeared before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., on charges of vagrancy and resisting a constable. He was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for resisting arrest. On the charge of being idle and disorderly the SCdused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within a year, provided that he aid everything necessary to registec„and entitle him to be given work or sustenance. Mr Walton explained that Hansen would have to take the work offered to him.

The police evidence indicated that Hansen, seeking assistance and board several times visited the home, of the managing secretary of the Hospital Board, who feared the accused’s attitude. The accused alarmed the managing secretary’s family- A large lorry load of Hansen’s furniture was held by the board.

A constable described violent hand-to-hand scuffle between himself and the accused for 30 minutes in a paddock adjoining the Hospital Btfard official’s home until assistance arrived.