OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2183, 30 September 1920, Page 2

OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

A SALUTARY SENTENCE. - For using ;i particularly disgusting expression in n race train on Tuesday, a (laxmill hand named •James Chou'., alias McDonald, was arrested and brought before the Palmerston Police Court yesterday. Aeensed pleaded guilty and staled that, he was so drunk at the time (hat lie had no recollection of (he incident. Senior-Sergeant Fraser stated (ha( accused entered a race train at Otaki in a very drunken condition, and promptly succumbed to the soporific effects of the liipior he had consumed. On the guard waking him to produce a ticket, accused made use of the language complained of in the ’presence of a lady and

ten oilier male passengers. -Si Constable (low, who was in (he compartment, corroborated the staiement.

“There is far too much of this obscene language,” said tlie seniorsergeant. “It is-impossible lo walk down (he si reels without hearing il.” The accused's record was (hen snbmilled lo (he justices. It showed that the man had. spent the gi;ealer part of (he last ten years in gaol for various offences.

One month’s hard hi hour, without tin* option, was the punishment decided on bv the Bench.

Accused pleaded for tiie option of i fine, but the Bench was adamant.