SHORT LIBERTY
EX-PRISONER ARRESTED SLEEPING IN A SHED TOHN O’BRIEN, alias William Edward Cotter, aged 50, who had just come out of gaol, appeared at the Police Court to-day. He pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly. Senior Sergeant Edwards said that accused had been found last night sleeping in a shed, with a sack as covering. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt: It hardly seems a fair thing to send him back again. The Senior Sergeant: When we find them sleeping, we have to bring them in. O’Brien was convicted, and ordered to come up for sentence, in order to enable him to obtain work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 1
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109SHORT LIBERTY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 1
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