“QUITE INCORRIGIBLE”
LABOURER FINED £5 WEATHER TOO NICE FOR PRISON In the opinion of Sub-1 nspector McCarthy, Thomas Martin is quite incorrigible. In spite of a prohibition order he gets drunk and fights and struggles furiously. Martin, a labourer aged 52. pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to being found drunk in Victoria Street yesterday and breaking the terms of his prohibition order. According to the sub-inspector, the man had 30 previous convictions, 12 of which had been recorded in 1928 alone, for breaches of the order and drunkenness. “He has had ample warning.” continued Mr. McCarthy, “but the severest fine has no effect upon him. He is the sort of man wlict* gets drunk and then fights and struggles. The last time that Martin was -arrested he hurt his foot badly by putting it through the window of a taxi-cab.” A fine of £5, in default cne month’s imprisonment, was imposed, Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., remarking that it seemed a pity to lock a man up during the weather that all were at present enjoying. _____________
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 559, 11 January 1929, Page 16
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