AN UNHAPPY ENDING

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 9

AN UNHAPPY ENDING

BROWN’S GOOD DAY OBSCENE LANGUAGE John Kennedy Brown, a 24-year-old fruit farmer, had “rather a good 'lay” yesterday, according to his counsel. Mr. Terry. He and another man celebrated their visit to the city with the best ,J f good spirits, and by the time Brown came to see his friend off at ne railway station last night he was not too sure whether he had t.wc friends or one. i In the crowd, however, he missed •iis companion, and, assuming that he Jad gone through on to the platform, •fied to get through, too. He had no acket, and the porter barred his way. The things he said to the man on me gate might have made his hair curl. They led to his arrest, however, and in the Police Court this morning he was charged with being “ r UPjc on the railway station, and with u «ng obscene language. Ho had no recollection of being impolite to the porter, Mr. Terry told the c °urt. He asked for leniency, and addsd that Brown had resolved to be abstemious in the future. “Quite an unhappy ending to his Sood day.” observed Mr. W. R. Mc*ean. S.M., as he fined Brown 10s for drunk, and JE 3 or a week’s gaol |°r his impromptu address to the por-

Mr. Terry asked for time to pay the !*® e - mentioning incidentally that ffrown had yet another fine out standQ g. The magistrate allowed him Monday, on condition that the mcney f o r both penalties was forthcoming then.