OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19994, 11 January 1927, Page 10

OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

A YOUNG MAN CONVICTED. CONSTABLE THREATENED WITH RAZOR. (From Our Special Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, January 10. James Sellars, aged 28, employed as a driver by Koope and Co., appeared in the Police Court to-day on a charge of using obscene language in a public place. Messrs Gilbert and J. Holloway, justices of the peace, were on the bench. A plea of guilty was entered. Sergeant Fox said that a constable was calk.l to a house in Yarrow street on account of a person who was alleged to 1 mentally defective. Seilars, who was under the influence of liquor, lost temporary control of himself when seen by the constable, and used some vile language. He also took out a razor and threatened the constable with it. He was a young man and ordinarily behaved himself very decently. He had a wife and five children. It was a fairly bad case of its kind. After perusing a sample of the language mentioned in the charge sheet, Mr Gilbert described it as “shocking.” The justices imposed a tine of £5, with 13s costs, in default one month’s imprisonment. Accused asked to have his name suppressed, but Mr Gilbert replied that if he had forgotten himself so far as to use such language he had no right to make such a request.