DRIVEN TO VAGRANCY
CARPENTER’S COMPLAINT
WORKLESS AND HOMELESS “I have got to be idle and dia©fderly,'' complained George Ross when charged with vagrancy at the Police Court this morning. “I h ave no work and no home, and was wounded at the war.” Ross, a carpenter aged 55, was said by Constable Henry of Newmarket to be sleeping* out. He had arrested him about midnight in Broadway last night after the man had told him that he had nowhere to go and no work.
Given an opportunity to make an explanation, Ross said that he wanted bis soldier’s pension. “That is not a question for me,” replied Mr. W. R. McKean. S.M.. as he sentenced Ross to three months’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 585, 11 February 1929, Page 1
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