OUT-OF-WORK PLEA FAILS
WAS ABLE TO GET DRUNK DEFENDANT’S POOR EXCUSE “I have been out of work, and that is why there are arrears,” said Claude Oswald McCully (56), when charged with being drunk, committing a breach of his prohibition order, trespassing on his wife’s property during the currency of a separation order, and with being in arrears of maintenance to the extent of £l4 2s, at th© Police Court this morning. “But you have been able to get drink,” remarked Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said the defendant had got drunk yesterday, and mad© several visits to his wife’s house. About Christmas time he had entered the house and taken a gramophone and sold it. ITe had paid nothing since the order was made. He was fined ss, in default 24 hours, on the first charge; 10s, or 48 hours, on the second; ordered to come up for sentence when called upon for trespassing; and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for being in ar-. rears, falling payment of £2 a week, and 2s off the arrears^
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 262, 26 January 1928, Page 15
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179OUT-OF-WORK PLEA FAILS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 262, 26 January 1928, Page 15
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