CENTURY OF CONVICTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 9 January 1931, Page 8

CENTURY OF CONVICTIONS

MAN S NUMEROUS LAPSES. Strenuously denying a’ll guilt, and vo; iferously asking for another chance to go “over the hill and back to work,’ Patrick Sullivan, alias Holland a labourer. aged 54 years, appeared in the Wellington Police Court on Wednesday on a charge; of being: a rogue ami a. vagabond. with insufficient- visible means oi support. It was mentioned by SeniorSergeant Edwards‘that Sullivan had IUI previous convictions, 20 ol them on similar charges to 11 1 e present one, but ..his Sullivan denied. There were only S|. After hearing the police evidence, the lie ii ch sentenced him to three iji*• 11 11 1 s' imprisonment.

M WTIIYLAT IdD SPIRITS

Francis Gibson, alias Patrick Johnston and Tim Hears toll Thompson, aged y{j years and 10 years respectively, appeared at the same, time as Sullivan, on similar charges, and each was 1 sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

Much of the three pleaded not guilty, and Senior-Sergeant Edwards stated that they, had been discovered sleeping under the shrubs at tliei Basin Reserve at 2 o'clock in the morning. Two of them had nothing, and the third had 2-Ad. They had no money to get a bed; two of them had been sleeping out for some time, while the third iiad been Stopping at the- Salvation Army Home until lie had been told to go and get work. They laid been badly under the influence of liquor from drinking methylated spirits when arrested.