UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANT.

NZ Truth, Issue 935, 27 October 1923, Page 6

UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANT.

Graham Wants to Gang Awa'.

(Prom "Truth's" -Taranakt Rep.) . '.', With the Influx into New Zealand of shiploads of immigrants it id only to be expected, that a few undesirable, birds should step ashore to try, {heir hands on New Zealanders at anything but honest toil. Whether the game' has been made too hot for them m the Old Country is a question. ; A bright bird is John Graham, alias, l ' Charles George Breen, alias Sinclair.When he graced the. dock at New Plymouth last week it was said that since , he had arrived here he had been EIGHT TIMES CONVICTED. Graham's speciality is sneak thieving,; and hia last -appearance was for lifting an overcoat from a motor-car on the 10th of laßt month; Since then he had been given three months for offencesf of a similar nature. Now' he's got another month to serve. ;■ ' 'Graham told Magistrate A. M. Mowlem that he was up against it when he pinched the coat and had usod it .to raise the wind. He reckoned ho was a bit of a cripple and wanted to get back to the Old Country by the Athenic on which his brother was a cook. "You are getting very near to being declared

«~ AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL," > Mr. Mowlem remarked. "Tea. I know; that i 8 why I want to go back," Graham answered. While handing out Graham his extra month, the Magistrate made an order for the return of the coat and of the money raised on it. ;