OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 1 October 1920, Page 4

OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

DRUNKEN MISDEMEANOUR IN A RACE TRAIN. ONE MONTH WITHOUT THE OPTION. For using a particularly disgusting j expression in a race train on Tuesday | last, a (laxmill hand named James ■ i jioat. alias McDonald, was arrested and brought before the Police Court. Palmerston North, on Wednesday (says the '‘Standard”). , The man agreed to be dealt with j summarily, and in pleading guilty j stated that'he was so drunk at the time j ihat lie had no recollection of the in- ! client. ( Senior Pengeant Fraser .fated that accused entered a race train at Otalti '. In a very drunken condition, and promptly succumbed to the soporific effects of the liquor he had consume'!. j )n the guard waking him to produce a i ticket, accused made use of the lan- jj gunge complained of in the presence ot >■ a lady and ten male passengers. i Constable^Gow. who was in the com- I partment, corroborated the statements. I “There is far too much of lh:t l] obscene language,” said the senior- jj sergeunt. “It is impossible to walk | down the streets without hearing it.’’jl The accused’s record was then sub- ij mined to the justices. It showed tlial | the man had spent the greater part of 3 the last ten years in gaol for variou-'j offences. ;

One month’s hard labour, without the option, was the punishment decider on by the Bench.

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