LIVING IN THE OPEN
J.ITTLE FOOD AND CLOTHING MAN ANb WOMAN ARRESTED [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] ASHBURTON, Wednesday After having lived in the Ashbtirton riverbed for several days, sleeping tinder the shelter of sheets of iron, a young man and woman were arrested and charged before justices with being idle and disorderly. Albert Arthur Dempsey, ' aged 26, labourer, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. The woman was convicted and discharged, dn condition that she entered a Salvation Army home. The police informed the Bench that the couple had subsisted on scraps of food and/only had the clothing in which they stood.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23191, 10 November 1938, Page 16
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