"DRINK AND MISCHIEF"
"Drink and mischief seem to go t* aether with the defendant,". said-Sub-Inspector J: >Dempsey,; in the- .Magistrate's Court .yesterday when Daniel Joseph Crombie, .a waterside worker, pleaded guilty, before Mr. E. ;D.-;Mos-ley SM, to his first ; offence,of drunkenness Within six months, and committing mischief by breaking^a^hotel; window valued :at £2 ss. Sub-Inspector Dempsey.said,that early:.on.;,S.aturday afternoon Crombie had been. put out of a hotelin an intoxicated condition. Not long afterwards he broke a,window of the hotel, but got away. ;. ' Later .he was arrested, for drunkenness m : W; lis Street, and it was then found that he was. responsible .for the: .window. SnT^SdSendant : said that,it-was along, time .since he ;haa ;been',irf trouble. . On the charge. of;, drunkenness,- h* was cdnvicted and: 'discharged, and for doing wilful, damage hejrwas^ convicted coner, in default^ 21 days',:. imprisonment.' '' ■ "■; ;'.'\::~- :':"''','■■':■',. \
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 4
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136"DRINK AND MISCHIEF" Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 4
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