DISTRESS IN AUCKLAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8450, 15 May 1906, Page 7

DISTRESS IN AUCKLAND.

A Man Breaks a Window to

Get into Gaol

A man named John Hobbs, who pleaded guilty in tho Auckland Police Court to a charge of having smashed a plate-glass window, valued at £9, in Endean's Buildings, could offer no excuse excepting that he acted under an impulse to do violence. Mr Dyer, S.M., before whom the accused appeared, asked if he was drunk at the time. "No, perfectly sobor," replied tho sorgeant, who suggested that a man acting under " impulses" might have an uncontrollable impulse to take a life. It was not the act of a sano man, and the accused might, be kept under medical observation. His Worship ascertained from Hobbs that he was a rabbiter who came from Sydney a fortnight ago, and had not obtained work. He had been sleeping in the Park, and when arrested had 2s lid in his possession. "You wanted to get into gaol where you would have food, and a roof over your head," suggested the Magistrate. " That's about right," confessed the accused, whose strange whim was granted, the sentence being six months' imprisonment.