KNOWINGLY HARBOURING
<g> AUCKLAND FRUITERER CHARGED FINE OF £lO IMPOSED {Per Press Association i AUCKLAND, Last Night. A charge of knowingly harbouring a prisoner named Frederick William Schluter, who escaped from Mount Eden prison on April 30, and is still at largo, was brought against a fruiterer named Alexander Mason, aged 35, in the Police Court.
i The Crown Prosecutor said that Mason had been employing Schluter’s wife as a housekeeper, and Schluter had gone to Mason’s house after his escape and had stayed there till M.ay 15, when there was a row and Mason told him to go. Mason was a decent man, and had no-cr been in trouble before.
Counsel said tlr” Mason now realised what he had done, and regretted it very much, but his heart had run away with his head.
The Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, imposed a fine of £l9, or two months ’ imprisonment.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 123, 19 May 1932, Page 5
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