“ GET THE WORK HABIT” MAGISTRATE ADVISES.
MAN WHO DELIGHTED TO TAKE PEOPLE DOWN.
“ This is a man who’ll do no work and delights in taking people down,” said Chief-Detective Gibson when Charles Hamilton Romer appeared before Mr H. A. Young, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court this morning and pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining £4 10s 9d from Richard Peter Gray b}' The Chief-Detective said that the accused had told Gray that he was a Mr White and that was how he obtained the money. The Magistrate: What does the accused do? The Chief-Detective: When he works at all he does a little canvassing. The accused denied that he did not work. He held that his trouble was due to drink. The Magistrate: The best thing for you is to get the work habit. I’ll put you where you Trill have a chance of acquiring it. When you come out 3'ou’ll be able to earn an honest living without unduly imposing on your fellow men. You are ordered to be detained for reformative treatment for a period not exceeding three years.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17756, 28 January 1926, Page 1
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