LIQUOR AND VAGRANCY.
ASCENT OF A FIRE ESCAPE/ WOMEN" BOARDERS ANNOYED [BY TELEGRAPH —PKBSS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH. Saturday. Albert • Smithson, , aged 28, was to-day charged with vagrancy, in having been found at midnight roaming about the fire escape of the Salvation Army People's Palace, without his : boots, which he had placed at the bottom of the ladder. A constable said that he found accused leaning through a window, occupied by two young women. Evidence was also given by a woman boarder that ) accused bad refused to leave her window unless she 'kissed ,him good night." None of the witnesses knew the accused. ' ;,. ,-.-,- ~ The defence was that accused had been drinking after coming in from the country, but he admitted that he had exhibited a certain amount of cunning in removing his boots. Ho was convicted and remanded for a week. ; /.' v •. , k' :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18578, 10 December 1923, Page 8
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141LIQUOR AND VAGRANCY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18578, 10 December 1923, Page 8
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