F. P. O'Reilly Again.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3051, 14 August 1893, Page 2

F. P. O'Reilly Again.

The "Otago Daily Times " of Friday says :—A barrister and solicitor, whose eccentric conduct has earned for him a considerable degree of notoriety during the past few weeks, fell into the clutches of the police at an early hour yesterday, and was charged intbe forenoon, before the Resident Magistrate, with having been drunk and disorderly. From the disreputable appearance presented by the accused in the dock, one would have been justified in supposing that he had been grovelling in the gutters, for his clothing was thickly crusted with mud, and there was a general look of untidiness about him such as the most regular cf the occupants of the police cells might have envied. Upon the case against him being called, the accused, remembering that a similar application had been favorably considered by the justices pf the peace on his previous appearance in the dock, requested permission to take his place at the solicitors' table, saying that as a barrister of the Supreme Court he had a rrjht to conduct his case there. Mr Carew replied, however, that the accused was in court, not as a barrister of the Supreme Court, but as a person charged with an offence against the law. The accused next desired leave to be admitted to bail on his own recognisances tq enable him to procure witnesses to prove hifl sobriety,* but, being informed that he would require to pay the recognisance fee, he said that as life was short he had better plead guilty, but he added he had no money, and that if he was fined he would have to ' • take ii> flat." Disregarding this appeal, the magistrate infi oted a small fine, with the usual alternative, but, on the representation of the accused that he had 9 considerable sum to receive from a well-knoif n legal gem in fcpwn, he was granted a week's tjme in whicji fro gay fche penalty. {In the afternoon, thesame j gentleman* who was no other than F. £. J O'Reilly, the well-known barrister, was; again before the Court, and, as our telegram stated, was remanded for medical j examination.]