DRUNKEN INGRATITUDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 1

DRUNKEN INGRATITUDE

MISSION’S KINDNESS ILL REPAID NOISY MAN GAOLED “That is what you get for an act of charity,” commented Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., when John Dungey Murton appeared in the Police Court dock this morning. Murton. a boiler-maker, aged 47, was charged with being drunk and using obscene language in Federal Street last evening. He pleaded guilty on the first charge but could remember nothing of the episode which led to the second charge. George Owen Davis, of the City Mission. said that Murton had been nursed for four days at the mission when be was ill. He had come to the mission last evening with a friend. He was drunk and used the language complained of. The magistrate mentioned that he believed the landlord of the building where the mission had its doss-house was considering the cancellation of the tenancy if there were many further episodes like that which led to the arrest of Murton. “If he is going on like this he is better out of the way.” said Sub-In-spector McCarthy producing a sheet of foolscap which he said was Murton's list—“a full page one too.” Murton was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. “Any chance of a fine?” he asked. The Magistrate: No; you are lucky I did not give you three months. You are a hopeless case.