COURT DIALOGUE.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1923, Page 1

COURT DIALOGUE.

IE SHE WERE A MAN

"Good morning, Your Worship,” cheerily said Helen Owen, 58, a married woman, of Stockwell Grove, when she appeared before a magistrate at Lambeth to answer the charge of being drunk and riotous. A constable said ho found the prisoner offering to fight everybody sle came across.

Prisoner (lnguhing heartily) : Then I must have been much drunk; I didn't know I could fight. Constable: She called everyhdy "a dirty German,” myself included. Prisoner: Unfortunately my second husband is a very holiest man. He looks all the world in the face. But he has got a nasty temper, and unfortunately, 1 have a nasty temper, tr.o. The last time t was hero was on t-t Patrick’s Day.

Magistrate: 1 don't know anything about that, Mrs Owen. Prisoner: My name is Owen Rurdett. An Irishwoman and myself had a row. I took some lemonade and hitters to wash the insult down, and I fell safe into the arms of a policeman. Magistrate: She is an excitable woman by temporment.

Constable: She is a nuisance to the neighbourhood. Prisoner: 1 wish ! was a man instead or a woman, t would knock ihe teeth down the throats of some of the people who insult me.

Magistrate: It is fortunate for the public- that you are not a man. Pay 40s,