“ GALLIVANTED OVER THE NORTH ISLAND.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 1

“ GALLIVANTED OVER THE NORTH ISLAND.”

YOUNG MAN TO SERVE* TWO MONTHS IN GAOL. George Joseph Moses Snelling, a young man who, the Chief-Detective stated, “ had been gallivanting round the North Island,” was sentenced, in tl'*e Magistrate's Court to-day, to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour for theft at Napier. A charge against him of disobedience of a maintenance order was adjourned for three months. Chief-Detective Carroll said that accused occupied a furnished room in a house in Napier at the time of the thpft. Accused disappeared at a time when the gramophone and records were misr.?d from the house. Some of the records, were later found in a secondhand dealer’s shop in Pajmerston North. Accused was a married man whose wife and child lived in Christchurch while he “gallivanted round the North Island with another woman whom he had taken from her husband. “ Accused is no good,” continued the Chief-Detective. “He is a thorough waster, and that’s the best I can say of hfin. He won't work.”

Accused pleaded guilty to the charge of theft. After the sentence of two months’ imprisonment with hard labour had been given, the charge of disobedience of a maintenance order was taken. In reply to the Maintenance Officer (Mr P. Jones), accused denied that he bad told his father that he would not work. He had not said that he would do away with his child. Mr Jones: You don’t like work, do you ? Defendant: I don’t, like it, but I do it ■when I can get it.. The Magistrate (Mr C. R. Orr-Walk-er) said that he would adjourn the second charge until it was seen what defendant could do when he came out of prison.