TWELVE MONTHS SENTENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 18 January 1905, Page 4

TWELVE MONTHS SENTENCE.

DRUNKARD'S OBSCENITY PUNISHED. Twelve months' hard labour was the sentence passed by Mr. S. E- McCarthy, S.M., in the Police. Court this morning Upon a cripple, named Nathaniel Charles Weston, of Lome-street, # who was. convicted pf using obscene language yesterday. Weston was also charged with being drunk $ip.d wilfully damaging two. boilers on the. same occasion,. Mrs. Helena Gong, the owner of the house in Lorne-gtreet in which the accused lived, said that during his fit of drunken violence he deliberately smashed two copper- boilers, valued at 15/, using an iron bar- He used fearfully obscene language in the presence of witness and his owq daughter, and the police had tq be sent for". Constables Montgomery and Lee, who arrested Weston, stated that '.he was found lying down drunk in a yard with his clothing disarranged- When, they tried to take him away he resisted violently. Mr. McCarthy was informed that the accused was convicted in September for qs.m.g obscene language, and that after this he was sent for trial on a similar charge, being sentenced to, a month's imprisonment. His Worship then remarked that short sentences had evidently done no good tP Weatqn, who had ouWed decency m the presence of his own daughter. Djunkennesa cpuld not excuse the use of obscene language, and ho, would be wnteneed to a imprisonment for thU. On the. other 3lXv£* ***** Wfti **"**•* wA