“Enemy to Himself”
“You are more your own enemy, but if you take out a prohibition order against yourself and give an undertaking that you will keep away from this woman’s premises you will bo convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within a year.’’ said Mr. T. Corson, J.P., this morning in the Police Court when Herbert John Ruddock, aged 63, a cook, pleaded guilty to having been found on November 10 in a state of helpless drunkenness in Grey street. SeniorSergearit .1 F. 11. Macnamara said that Radriock had appeared before the court on November 1) and had been remanded for '-medical observation, and the examination had proved him to be normal mentally and physically. A complaint had been received from a woman neighbour in Grey street that the accused was running about without any clothes on. and Sergeant L. T. Moore had found him as described and in a state of intoxication. The woman was frightened of Haddock when he was intoxicated. Haddock promised to take out a prohibition order and to comply with the other conditions.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 17 November 1939, Page 8
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