AN UNUSUAL CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1917, Page 8

AN UNUSUAL CASE.

CHARGE OF INDECENT LANGUAGE. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, a man named Oliver Herbert Sundborn, aged 38 years, who appeared^before Mr. A. Crooko,,. S.M., pleaded guilty to charges of threatening behaviour and indecent language. Senior Sergeant Bowden, who prosecuted, stated 'iliat the case was a rather unusual one. Mr. E. Wooldridgo's motor-ear was drawn up near the railway station on Monday afternoon, when the accused came along, and poking his face inside, addressed to the women in the car such remarks as "You're a nice lot of dears, aren't you?" The driver remonstrated with the man, but the latter showed fight, and triei, to strike him, also using indecent language. Constable Nnughton, who arrested the accused, thought the man was drunk, but Sundborn protested that he was quite sober, and on his request Dr. Wade was called, and as a result of the examination, stated that in anything accused had done drunkenness could not be made an eveuse? In reply to the magistrate, Mr. E. Wooldridge slated that he certainly thought at the lime, of the incident accused was the worse for liquor. Sergeant Uowden said he understood that accused's wife had deserted liim. and that he was left with -five children who were at Wangamii. In answer to the magistrate, accused said he wa * unable to tell what induced him to ii" Hl' to the car. He could not r ,.,.,,|1.-i iiiiylhiiig about it. Ac- S| -l -.a. convicted and discharged on i ii. and on the second was eon'.A' I ''' 1 id thud £% with costs 7s.