“A SOCIAL PEST.”
CHARGES AGAINST MUSICIAN. WELLINGTON, May 13. “He is a social pest, your Worship, begging and making a nuisance of himself wherever he goes,” said Detective Sergeant Holmes in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Preston Eddis Luce Broad, a musician, aged 51, tearfully asked Mr E. Page, S.M., for a chance to go back to England. “I will get right out of the country in; three weeks,”, he said. Broad had just been convicted of stealing a dress coat worth £1 10s, belonging to Israel Kctlo, and a brief bag and its contents, the property of some person unknown. “The accused was placed on probation! only a week or two ago for stealing a pair of boots,” , continued the detective sergeant. “He has previous convictions in South Africa and England for theft, robbery, begging, vagrancy, and indecency.” The Magistrate imposed a sentence of two months’ imprisonment on each the terms to be concurrent. u ■ »
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Otago Witness, Issue 3818, 17 May 1927, Page 25
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