USED BAD LANGUAGE
FOREIGNER FINED A small parcel belonging to a foreigner named Horacio Acosta, led to his appearance in the Onehunga Police Court this morning. Sergeant D. J. O’Neill told the Bench that Acosta went, while drunk, to the house of a widow in Onehunga about nine o’clock last evening to get a parcel he had left there. The widow was in bed, but got r.p and handed Acosta the parcel through a window. PTe then tried to get inside the house, and in the course of a violent struggle, interspersed with lurid language, used a most offensive epithet. Pleading guilty to the charges of drunkenness and of using obscene language, Acosta said he had recently come to town and had been drinking. Given a chance he would go back to his work in the bush. On looking at his list, the justices, Messrs. J. Laking and J. E. Green, convicted and discharged him for being drunk, but fined him £5, or a month’s imprisonment, on the obscene language charge.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1006, 24 June 1930, Page 10
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171USED BAD LANGUAGE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1006, 24 June 1930, Page 10
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