"BIRD OF PASSAGE"
VAGRANT'S FALSE STORY THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT Charges of being an idle and disorderly person and obtaining board and lodging by false pretences were admitted in the Otahuhu Police Court yesterday by Albert Frederick Clarke, aged 50. Sergeant J. Cahill said accused was a bird of passage and on arriving at Otahuhu he had obtained lodgings at a boarding house. He had informed the proprietor that he was an employee of the Railway Department on transfer from Lower Hutt to the Otahuhu workshops. These representations had turned out to be false. Accused had a long list of previous convictions dating from 1921 to 1933, and 12 were in respect of false pretences. Accused said ho did not think the list was correct. He had been employed at Lower Hutt and was at present unable to work on account of a poisoned hand. He was certain ho could have got work when it improved. Messrs. T. P. C. Whitley and S. Rickards, J.P.'s, imposed a penalty of three months' imprisonment on the first charge. Accused was convicted and discharged on the other count.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22401, 23 April 1936, Page 14
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