TOLD TALE TO LAWYER
BORROWING, NOW SORROWING MAN ON DRINKING BOUT (From Our Oxen Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. Suffering, from the effects of a heavy drinking bout, John Dwyer, middleaged, appeared before Mr. B. C. Lowry, J.P.. in the Police Court to-day, charged with obtaining 12s by false prete » -a. Accused pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney told the court that accused went into the office of Mr. P. H. Watts, solicitor, informing him that he was a Government servant. He stated he was unemployed, but wanted 12s to go to his new position. At first Mr. Watt? refused to givo the accused the money, but when a statement had been signed he handed the money over. Subsequently accused was arrested and admitted the statement was untrue. Percy Harold Watts said accused told him he was on leave trom the department and intended going to Whan gar ei for a holiday. However, he indulged in a drinking bout at Helensville and now found himself in Hamilton without money.
The senior-sergeant said that Dwyer had been convicted of vagrancy’ at Blenheim. Drink was responsible for his condition. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within sir: months.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 530, 6 December 1928, Page 1
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