OLD OFFENDER IN COURT.
BEGGING ALMS IN STREET.
AID BY SALVATION ARMY,
"This man is an old offender," stated Suli-Inspector McCarthy, when James Pollock, aged 76, a labourer, was charged in the Police Court yesterday with being idle and disorderly in that he was found begging alms in Queen Street. Pollock pleaded guilty. Mr. McCarthy added that accused had accosted pedestrians and demanded threepence and sixpence. He had 56 previous convictions, mostly for drunkenness, disorderly behaviour and vagrancy. "Ho has not been here for three years," romarked Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., inspecting Pollock's list. , Staff-Captain Holmes, of the Salvation Army, stated that tho Army would he willing to look' after accused, who had beon an excellent worker when ho was in tho care of the Army previously. Tho magistrate thon convicted accused and ordered him to come up for sentence if called on within six months, instructing him to remain in the care of tho Army.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20405, 6 November 1929, Page 14
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