WENT TO BED IN GUTTER

NZ Truth, Issue 1209, 31 January 1929, Page 6

WENT TO BED IN GUTTER

.(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Representative). Because Alexander Fraser chese to demonstrate the old song, "Three O'clock m the Morning-, ", by lying m tlie watertable m front of the Dunedin Salvation Army Hall, his New Year diary starts off with a black mark. Nearing the dawn of a recent morning, Alec decided to doss m the concrete gutter m Maclaggan Street, with half a bottle of whisky. When he got the gentle office from a nonstable that there was na place like home, Fraser let the world know that he would not go home for any policeman m Dunedin. It seems that he was particularly keen upon Maclaggan Street because it was the residential location of his wife, on whose cranium he had designs for the set purpose of unburdening her of her brains. When he came up before Magistrate Bundle next morning, Fraser, a well-dressed, decent-looking young man, told his worship that he was working at Woolside and had not been into town for three or four months. Regarding his wife, he said he was "practically" separated from her. His early morning demonstration cost him 20/- and a con r viction for disorderly behavior.