MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 62, 31 March 1937, Page 5

MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT

Use of Obscene Language Before Woman NAPIER MAN SENTENCED One month's imprisonment, on a charge of using obscene ^ language within the hearing of people in a publio pface was imposed upon Capl Mafeking Hertz, of Napier, labourer, when he appeared before Mr J. MiUer, S.M., in the Napier Magistrate's Court this morning. On a Charge of using obscene InngTiagft in a public place he was eonvicted and discharged. Outlining the case for the police, Senior-Sergeant W. Pender said that th© accused returned home when the woman next door, Mrs Hamilton, was vislting his wife. An argument ensued, and accused used obscene language. When Mrs Hamilton asked oue of her children to go to the police, accused left, but he repeated the language in a ioud roice on the street. Evidenee to this effect was given by Alma Hamilton and her tw© young daughters. They wrote down the words accused had used, stating that several people on the street had heard accused and looked up. Constable J. Greenlefis gave evxdenCe of two visfts to the accused's honse. On the second visit the accused was in a very drunken condition, so that when he followed the constable into ihe street he was arrested on a charge of drunkenness. "He has 15 prosrioas convlctiong, for obscene language and assault/' said the senior-sergeanfl when the Magistrate asked for Information. 4 4 You used filthy language .before the two children and their mother, and that cannot he tolerated," said ^ the Magistrate. 44You will be convicted and- sentenced to a month's imprisonment." 4 Thankft," said the accused.