RIVERTON POLICE COURT.
Saturday, 22nd November. (Before E. Cook, Esq., J.P., and J. Petchell, Esq., J.P.) Martin Wallace, a gentleman possessing several aliases, was charged with drunkenness and vagrancy. It appeared the prisoner had been loafing about the township begging money and liquor. He had on one occasion asked a man named Brewer for the loan of 10s., threatening, in the event of a refusal, to knock Brewer down. Constable Barry arrested him between 1 and 2 o’clock the previous morning sleeping under a verandah. Two convictions were previously recorded against the prisoner, and on this occasion he was sentenced to two months’ hard labour in Invercargill gaol.
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Western Star, Issue 3, 29 November 1873, Page 3
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108RIVERTON POLICE COURT. Western Star, Issue 3, 29 November 1873, Page 3
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