INSULT TO MAGISTRATE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1922, Page 5

INSULT TO MAGISTRATE.

WHARF LABORER CHARGED. INCIDENT AT TIMARU. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night. The stipendiary magistrate (Mr. E. 0. Mossley) had brought before him to-day George Smith, a wharf laborer, on a charge of contempt o-f court for a breach of the Magistrate’s Court Act by insulting the magistrate when returning from a sitting of the court. Accused assaulted they constable serving the summons in the case, and on this charge he was dealt with first and was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labor. In dealing with the contempt charge, the magistrate said he had been insulted by accused three times before, but ac-’used seemed to be a man of violent temper, illiterate and ignorant, and might not have known he was doing a very wrong thing. But on Monday he went too far, and a stop must be put to such conduct. He was prepared to accept an apology with a promise that such conduct would not be repeated. Accused mumbled an apology, luid said: “There will be no more of this.” His Worship accepted this as an apology and a promise, and allowed the charge to be withdrawn.