“ A TRAGIC HISTORY ”
MAN' AND WiFE IMPRISONED ROGUES AND, VAGABONDS A man ami ills wife, John Reid and Ada Reid, were belli sentenced to one month’s imprisonment after they had been convicted in Ate Olalmhn Police Court. They were charged with being rogues and vagabonds and using obscene language. Sergeant. Rowell said that at 11 o’clock on Saturday night the couple had been found in an unoccupied “shack” at Otahuhu. Their conduct and language had caused neighbouring residents to lodge a complaint. Liquor had been found and both had been under its influence. The magistrate, Mr. P. H. Levien, asked what the records of the accused were. sergeant Rowell: It is a tragic history. The woman was discharged from prison on Saturday morning. Drink is their trouble. Each was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment on the first charge, being convicted and discharged on the second count.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 84, 18 March 1931, Page 6
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