POLICE v. A. JUDD.

Shannon News, 14 July 1922, Page 3

POLICE v. A. JUDD.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln yofir report of the proceedings against, Mr Albert Judd, of T.okomaru, in the Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, you stated Mr Judd was charged with, and convicted of, using obscene language. Such a statement is entirely incorrect, and may probably do the defendant no little harm. The actual charge was of using indecent language; arid the .learned magistrate found on the evidence for the police, that Mr Judd had used a word which the Court in its wisdom held to be indecent. All the evidence proved was that Mr Judd, in indignantly calling one of the witnesses a liar, qualified the term with an adjeetve, the use< of which by the London cabmen so much affrighted the late Max O’Rell (after, finding in his dictionary th'alfi the French equivalent is Sanguinaire) until he discovered that it was merely a meaningless adjective which the said cabman found necessary in order that the other fellow might understand.— I am, etc., H. R. COOPER.