WOMEN VAGRANTS
THREE GET THREE MONTHS gaol only place for them *1 suppose there is nothing for 't but gaol,” commented Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., sentencing three women vagrants to three months each at the Police Court this morning. “Some day we shall have some other place for them.” MARY SMITH, aged 55, and Elsie Florence Neville, aged 49, were charged with being found drunk in Myers Park and being idle and disorderly with insufficient lawful means of support Both pleaded guilty and Sub-Inspec-tor McCarthy said that the women had been in Myers Park where rfon had been supplying them with drink. I hope to bring the men before your Worship soon,” continued the subtospector. “Myers Park is not the Place for that sort of thing.” Seville had 74 previous convictions according to police records and had seen la gaol for three months for TS ®? lcy at the end of last year. “Three months.” said the magiss*- l east it koeps them alive *0“ oft the street when they are up there." This is another of the sane sort,” the sub-inspector when . ary Cantell, a domestic aged 48, Pleaded guilty on charges of being °und drunk in Cook Street and assaulting Leslie Clifton Arthur Payne, '-antell also pleaded guilty on the “unt of vagrancy. Three months was also the punishment meted out to her.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 655, 6 May 1929, Page 1
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