“Out of Mere Curiosity”
FOUR MEN’S EXPLANATION OF TRESPASS BY NIGHT. CONVICTIONS ENTERED Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 3. Found in the yard of Courtenay Place Post Office last night, and charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with being unlawfully on premises, but in circumstances which did not disclose the commission of or intention to commit any other offence, four men explained their presence on the premises as being “out of mere curiosity.” They were: Albert Janies Rickard (19), labourer; Frank Deldergfield (20), labourer, Donald Leslie McLeod (21), seaman; and William Browning Watkings (41), fishmonger. It was stated the men were found at 10.45 p.m. by two postal employees, and, as they could give no satisfactory explanation, were held till the police arrived. Rickard and Dclderliekl were on one occasion found in the rates office of the Town Hall. By crossing a fence at the back of Courtenay Place, access is possible to the backs of all the business houses jji Courtenay Place. The accused were convicted and ordered to conic up for sentence if called upon in three months.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6619, 4 August 1931, Page 7
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