WOULD NOT BUY FOOD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 58, 10 March 1931, Page 8

WOULD NOT BUY FOOD

MAN WITH £B4O IN CASH COLLAPSE THROUGH STARVATION (Per Press Aesociation.) GISBORNE, March 9. An unusual case came before Justices this afternoon when a middle-aged man named Robert Crosley, with £B4O in his possession, was convicted and discharged for having insufficient Jaw ful means of support. Some three months ago Crosley was before the Court in Gisborne on a similar charge and surprise was occasioned when it was found that he had £l2 10s in Australian notes in his possession. Even more surprise was expressed to-day on Crosley’s reappearance duo to his having been picked up on the road neai; Tolaga Bay in almost a state of collapse through starvation. He had been removed to Tolngo Bay Hospital where a nurse found he had 840 pound notes pinned in his coat lining. Senior-Sergeant Wade explained that the man had been brought before the Court for his own safety and it had been arranged for Crosley to be taken to a mental home.

Croslcv replied that he would sooner go back to gaol as the food there suited him.

The gaoler. Mr Richardson, said that Crosley would sooner go back to gaol for ten years if he were permitted. It didn’t cost him anything thefe and all he did was to sleep in his bunk or lie in the sun.

Crosley was convicted and discharged on condition that he entered a mental home. Defendant’s main objection was that he would have to pay something for his board.