ANXIOUS FOR HIS UNCLE

NZ Truth, Issue 1228, 13 June 1929, Page 8

ANXIOUS FOR HIS UNCLE

Did Not WisfiHim To Be Upset (From "N.Z. Truth's" Wellington Rep.) Leaning on the rail of the dock m the Wellington Police Court, with his back to the people who crowded the court-room, Thomas James Davenport, whose face showed every sign of having been a stranger to a razor for some days, listened to a charge of being an idle and disorderly person. JT was stated iby Senior-sergreant Ward that Davenport had been found loitering near the gates of Government House, and that he had stayed at a house for about five weeks and had cleared off owing rent for that period. ■ ■ Asked what he had to say, Davenport told Mr. E. Page, S.M., that, he •wanted a remand m order that he could communicate ■with relatives m Auckland. "That is an old, old story," interjected the Senior-sergreant, "I have heard him say that before to-day. 1 ' When asked who his relatives j were, Davenport told the Magistrate that they lived m Auckland, and he could get m touch with an uncle and a sister as well as some cousins. • . The Magistrate: Wijo are they, and what is the name of your uncle? Davenport: 1 prefer not to drag his name into this. I don't want him to bear any disgrace. 'The Magistrate: "Well," -write the' name. ' . ' Davenport was handed a piece of paper and a pencil, and, after much cogitation and hesitation, wrote some name on the paper and handed it to the Magistrate/ . Upon perusing .... it, the magistrate said he .would have to grant the remand. He remembered' the man, and would remand him to appear on June 19. .■' ■' ' ■■ ■ . ■■:.- - ■■■'■.-' ••.