GAOL FOR A NUISANCE
TOO DRUNK TO REMEMBER (From Our Own Correspondent) CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday. Charged with drunkenness and disorderly behaviour, also with having used indecent language in the presence of women, James Norman Scobie Murray appeared before justices in the Police Court to-day. Accused had made himself a nuisance by wanting to sit by two young women on a seat in the public gardens by the Town Hall. When an attendant expostulated with him he became abusive and used vile language. The police were sent for, and Murray was arrested. Murray pleaded guilty and said he was so drunk that he h#d no knowledge of what had happened. He was convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. A youth was also charged with drunkenness, disorderly behaviotir and use of obscene language, the offence having occurred the previous day in Cambridge. Evidence showed the youth wps very drunk and made himself a nuisance in a shop occupied by Mr 11. Rout. On being ordered off the premises he assaulted Rout, and attempted to strike him with a bottle of beer. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was convicted ancT fined £2, with £1 costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 13
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199GAOL FOR A NUISANCE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 13
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