MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 43, 3 February 1912, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

NAPIER. (Befor- AV. E. Giiffen. J.P.) A ROGUE AND A VAGABOND. John Rhead, alias Thomas Read, xvas charged with being a rogue and a vagabond, having been found by night without lawful excuse in Dr. F. N. Harvey’s washhouse, Byron street.

The accused pleaded gfiilty. Sergeant Cummings stated that the accused, xvho xvas quite a young man, had only been three months out from England. He had landed first in Lyttelton and then found his way to AVellington. From there he walked to Dannevirke where he xvas sentenced to a term of imprisonment for vagrancy. AVhen arrested lie was in a filthy condition, and the sergeant expressed the opinion that in a country like this there was no need for such a thing to occur. On arriving in Napier the accused had obtained a bed and meals on what amounted to false pretences, bating said that Lie lied walked from A\ ollington. xvliile on that day lie had just walked from the gaol. When found in Dr. Harvey's shod, where a quantity of benzine v.a-: kept, ho xx as striking 111alches. Conxicted and sent eno; cl to one month's imprisumneni with luird labour.

Charles Pearce xvas chaiged xvith being an idle and disorderly person. Sergt. Cummings stated that the accused had been living with the natives at Aie.tco. but he had refused to work, and they bad handed him over to the polite constable ai To ■ .tale. The secreiaix- of tlie Hospital and Charitable Aid Board had been (■•ommimicated with and ho tmo ntroeed to lake t’m man lor a foG nisht in the Ohl People's Homo at

I : :: Island. Convicted and ordered to come iq for sentence when called upon.