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NZ Truth, Issue 79, 22 December 1906, Page 5

At Christchurch S.M. Day has entered an emphatic protest against a person being charged with a number of aliases. Says it wouldn't be allowed m the Supreme Court. But, as Day should know, the pitiless police, aided and abetted usually by the nincompoop Jay Pay, resort to any mean trick m the lower court to prejudice- : a prisoner, that they would not 'dare to attempt; before a judge. The .excuses of drunks when facing the beak axe many and various. One. on .Tuesday last, when charged with being an habitual drunkard; offered the explanation that he really could not. help getting drunk as he was a very busy ,111 an, whose business could not be properly cord'icted unless he had" a. dnnk. That drunk will never have been so busy as he will be for the next . month.