RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (Before E. F. Roche, Esq., J.P.) Monday. May 18, 1884
James Royoroft wa9 charged by Sergeant Emerson with using obscene anguage in the public streets of To /Yroha on the 15th inst. Defendant pleaded guilty. The Sergeant stated the language •nade a§e of was rery bal, ami uttered in the presence of a number of people, but he did not, in this caae, wish Upress for punishment beyond whai would be sufficient to warn defendant from committing a like offonoe, as h< had a wife and several children enlreh lependant on his earnings. In consideration of these facts, an 'aking into account that defenlant- ha I been .ocked np since Friday night, the
Sench imposed th& nominal penalty of 2^ A hours' additional imprisonment, aivl ' sever ply repHmanded deffiuknt for-Lis iliflgustitig behaviour, stid saiil it was a class of crime that must be put down with a strong- hand.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 103, 23 May 1885, Page 2
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152RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (Before E. F. Roche, Esq., J.P.) Monday. May 18, 1884 Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 103, 23 May 1885, Page 2
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