BOOTMAKER FINED
OUTBURST IN HOBSON ST. LENIENCY TO CRIPPLE His wooden leg saved James Williams £4 at the Police Court this morning. Williams, a bootmaker, aged 42 pleaded guilty to using obscene language in Hobson Street last evening Sub-Inspector McCarthy could say nothing for the man except that he suffered from a disability, having a wooden leg. H© was a pensioner and had not been before the court since 1926. Mr. b\ K. Hunt, S.M., imposed a fine of £l, remarking that, had it not been for the sub-inspector’s reference to Williams’s disability, the lino would have been 42 5.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 5
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