VAGRANT GOES BACK TO GAOL
Receiving- a message from Piha that a wild-looking man was roaming about frightening campers and settlers. Constable Rush ton went out from Henderson and arrested Samuel John Hammond. Hammond appeared at the Police Court this morning and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Described as a labourer, aged 47 Hammond, alias Walker, pleaded not guilty to being a rogue and vagabond, having insufficient visible means of support and having been previouslv convicted of vagrancy. Constable Rushton said that people at Piha had thought accused was an escapee from Avondale. He had come out of gaol on December 27. “When I searched him I found three bottles of wine and one of whisky,” continued the constable. “He said he had them for about six months, which is very unusual, but nobody appeared to have missed them. Hammond is already on probation for attempted suicide.” “Ho is mental, of course,” commented Mi*. F. JC. Hunt, imposing tiie term of imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 859, 31 December 1929, Page 14
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