VAGRANT GREEK
LIKENED TO WILD BULL. DETECTIVE’S RIBS BROKEN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIER, Tuesday. “A wild bull on the prairies could not have given the police more trouble than this man did," remarked Detec-tive-Sergeant Fitzgibbons in the Napier Magistrate’s Court this morning when a Greek named Con Paflti, labourer, aged 25, appeared on a charge of vagrancy. Mr Fitzgibbons expressed the opinion -that the man Avas not able to control himself and that it AA-as absolutely unsafe to alloAV him to roam round the streets where young girls might be.
On behalf of the accused, Mr J. Mason applied for’bail. He stated that Paflti had complained that the police had handled him too roughly when they arrested him. A Detective: Well, I can show more bruises than he can. I had two ribs broken in the scuffle. Mr A. M. Moslem,', S.M., remarked that the police Avere not there to receive broken ribs.
Bail Avas eventually allowed to- accused in £2OO and one surety of £2OO or tAvo of £IOO each. As a special condition, the sureties Avere to justify' themselves before His Worship.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18393, 29 July 1931, Page 8
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