COUNTRY'S CHAMPION LOAFER.
"TOO TIRED TO GET UP!"
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 30.
In the Magistrate's Court to-day, Archibald John Clifford ; Searle, a motor salesman, aged 26, pleaded guilty to stealing a tramper's outfit, valued at £25/6/6, and goods valued at £6/12/-..
Detective-Sergt. Holmes said that the accused was so lazy that he would not get up to work when'he did get employment. His employers had said that he was not worth employing. The probation officer's report said that the accused's; mother, aged 60, had been compelled to go to work on account of .his spendthrift habits. He was sentenced to two .years' reformation on the first charge, and to come lip for sentence when called upon on the second.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17926, 30 June 1930, Page 4
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121COUNTRY'S CHAMPION LOAFER. Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17926, 30 June 1930, Page 4
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