Absolutely

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 7

Absolutely

WITNESS was the brother of the accused, who pleaded , not guilty to being drunk while m charge of a motor car. Counsel: Was it your car? Witness (laconically) : Absolutely! When you helped to carry him out of the cafe, what way was he put m the car— on the front seat, with his feet towards the steering wheel? — Absolutely. When you saw the constables with him, was he sitting up behind steering wheel? — Absolutely — not! Was he still asleep?— Asleep? Absolutely!. Well, would you say that he was absolutely unconscious? — Absolutely!

one hand, and generally she got much the worse of the brawl. The sub-inspector commented to Magistrate Mosley that if the accused were permitted to remain m the home the aged mother might be the victim of her daughter's violence. The accused, a woman of 35 -years, handed : up a letter for the consideration of the magistrate, who remarked that she seemed to be slightly mental, judging by the tone of her letter; Sub-inspector: There is not much wrong with her mentality, sir. It is more laziness. . "I have been trying to get work for a long time. She started on me first," interjected the accused m a highpitched voice from the dock. Talking the sub-inspector down, she rambled on heatedly that her' mother was always rowing, and had driven the .father from the house three years ago, and the accused took pity on her and did not like to leave her at the same time. .-■■■• "I've done nay duty, and I am the only one who has stuck to .her," the accused added pleadingly. The accused went on to inform the court of the hardships she had suffered from the hands of her heartless mother. • "I've been keeping myself," she declared. "Why, she even locked up the pantry, and the pots and pans; everything except the salt, so that I could not get anything to eat." The magistrate adjourned the case for a few days and instructed the accused, to remove her belongings from her mother's house without delay. A few minutes later the woman appeared v m the Maintenance Court where ."the police asked for a maintenance order against her for the support of her three children. The responsibility "of maintaining the children had fallen upon the grandmother who was some £2/10/- m arrears aiid sh6 appeared also. The case against the daughter was adjourned for a Week to see. if she could get work, while a similar deci&iori was arrived at m the 1 case of the old lady who said she was going to sell her house. She would then toe able to keep up the payments.