“FOSSICKING ABOUT”
ALLEGED BREAKING AND ENTERING PARTIAL ADMISSION OF GUILT. Two labourers, James Ward and Charles Morvan alias Charles Morgan alias Watson Patrick alias Morgan James, were charged yesterday at the Magistrate’s Court, Messrs R. D. Hanlon and H. Longmore, J.P.’s, with breaking and entering a batch belonging to Elsie Alice Fife, at York Bay, and stealing clothing and liquor to the value of £2O, and also breaking and entering a batch in the same locality owned hy William Gray Young, and stealing goods and liquor valued at £1 12s 6d. Morvan pleaded not guilty, but Ward offered a statement from the box that he found the doors open and took goods, hut not the liquor. He said that they had gone over to the hays looking for work and had bought a bottle of methylated spirits and had got drunk. “We got fossicking around,” he said, “and got into mischief. If we hadn’t been drunk we would not have done it.”
As Ward only partially admitted the charges, his plea was taken as one of not guilty, end both were committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12239, 10 September 1925, Page 4
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