Shyster's Shillings

NZ Truth, Issue 1198, 15 November 1928, Page 8

Shyster's Shillings

ROBERT NIcINTYRE, is a rogue and vagabond. He has made a hobby pf his "profession" and is a first-class cadger. Recently, m Wellington, Robert took up a stand m the centre of the city. There he waylaid a stranger — for the price of a meal. Whether it was because the man from whom he solicited alms was a stranger, or because of the expert tale Robert \"put across," at all events the latter was the recipient of 1/3.

But the little transaction was witnessed by a constable, who promptly had a word or two to say to the allegedly hungry one. In Molntyre's possession was half a bottle of methylated spirits. In due time he was trotted before Magistrate Salmon, m the Wellington Police Court, and charged with being a rogue and vagabond m that he did beg alms. As Mclntyre had a long list of previous convictions — both for the same offence and also for thieving— and as Senior-sergeant Butler did not give him a good name, the bench handed out a little corrective medicine to Mclntyre m the shape Of three months' imprisonment.