OBSCENE LANGUAGE.
At the local S.M. Court this morning before Messrs Alf; Fraser and Cockburn J.’s P., Hugh Campbell, a respectable-looking middle-aged man was charged with using obscene language in Main-street yesterday. Constable Woods stated that accused had been turned out of Whyte’s and gang’s hotels and had used the language complained of. His state was such that a charge of drunkenness could not be preferred against him. Accused said that it* he had been sober he would not have used the words complained of. He pleaded for leniency. The bench said that there was too much of this sort of thing taking place and they were determined to put a stop to it. He would be fined 40s or two weeks imprisonment in Wanganui gaol. Accused will be conveyed to Wanganui to-day.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19061213.2.12
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3731, 13 December 1906, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
133OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3731, 13 December 1906, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in