IN THE COURTS.
. “BIT OF A SPREE.” YOUNG MAN ILLEGALLY IN NURSES’: HOME. (Press Association > CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. l. “In making ,his escape from the nurses' home he jumped 'op .to the glass roof and damaged both the roof and himself,” said Chief Detective Carroll, when Egerton Shelley Walter Han bury Leigh* Hunt, a young man educated atj Westminster, England, was charged' in thei Magistrate’s Court with being unlawfully on the premises of the nurses’ homo. Christchurch, on Sunday night.. “Ho. came tor New! . Zealand rto ■learn farming," but he has discovered that farming is not 'his'jhpfutal bent,” 1 said Mr Bowie, wlio appeared for the defendant.' “He is. therefore returning to England, Before: going bach he thought he would like a bit of a spree with his friends and he was drinking freely. The defendant was in a cantankerous mood. Re Was not there at the invitation of any oile, and the nurses had nothing to do with it.” ; The magistrate: The' defendant is convicted and discharged, and ordered to pay £3 10s damages, in d<y fault- seven daysP hard-labor.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10733, 2 November 1928, Page 2
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