NO HOME OR MONEY
LABOURER SENT TO PRISON "Accused came to the Auckland police station with no money, nowhere Ito go, and asking to be locked up," said Detective-Sergeant Walsh in the Police Court yesterday, when Norman Darcy Bryden, labourer, aged 45, was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, without means of support, and also with tho theft of a fowl, valued at 3s, at New Brighton. Accused was to have appeared in the Police Court in Christchurch following tho theft of a fowl, said Mr. Walsh, but he disappeared to the North Island. He was an itinerant vagrant, who, when he had money, spoilt it on drink. Accused had n criminal history over about years. The magistrate, Mr. J. Morling, sentenced accused to one month's imprisonment on each charge, the terms. to bo concurrent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 14
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