FIFTY-NINTH CONVICTION
HOPELESS INEBRIATE BACK TO GAOL AGAIN Quite unabashed, Elsie Neville, an unattractive creature of 47, made her 59th appearance before the Police Court this morning on charges as the direct result of drink and for the third time she had broken her prohibition order, evidently regarding the restriction as a mere scrap of paper. Neville had been released from gaol only yesterday and apparently was celebrating the event when Constable Johnson called at a house in Belgium Street and found her intoxicated. “I had a bottle of stout, but I wasn’t drunk,” she declared defiantly. “I’ve got a job in the country,” she added. “I am afraid you will have to postpone your visit,” said Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., “you are sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on the first charge and fined £5 or, *in default, 14 days on the other.” '
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 66, 9 June 1927, Page 9
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144FIFTY-NINTH CONVICTION Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 66, 9 June 1927, Page 9
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