Three Months’ Gaol Imposed on Labourer

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7486, 9 June 1934, Page 8

Three Months’ Gaol Imposed on Labourer

CHARGED WITH BEING IDLE AND DISORDERLY. Charged with beiug found drunk in a public place and also with being'an idle and disorderly person in that he had insufficient lawful means of support. Frank Ford alias Albert Joseph Jiell, alias Wells, a labourer, with no fixed place of abode, appeared before Messrs. .T. 11. Stevens and T. R. Lees, .J ’s.l\, in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North yesterday. SeniorSergeant Whitckouse, for the police, explained that accused’s real name was Albert Joseph Bell and that he had been making a general nuisance of himself. ITc bad pestered a doctor at the hospital and, when arrested, a largesized stone wrapped in brown paper, had been found in his pocket. Accused had made the acquaintance in the lockup of a man on remand during his previous time there and when Bell bad been released be had gone to the home of this man and had secured ffil from his wife allegedly to purchase tobacco for the man in gaol. Accused had spent the money on drink. There were 14 previous convictions for vagrancy recorded against accused, concluded the Senior-Sergeant. The Beneli convicted and disliarged accused on the charge of drunkenness and sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment on the other.