SALUTARY VISITATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 42, 18 February 1908, Page 5

SALUTARY VISITATION.

•: ■• Alfred < Skin was ;caught in a. -disgusting act within,the sight of a numt>er of children in "the' Western Park yesterday afternoon. A young lady' who -was passing observed the accused's doings, and complained about them to two young ' .men she met further on. They cautiuosly : approached. Skin, catching-, nlm unaware? in the very act, and taking him straight ( way to the Police Station. ' j , The man made a feeble attempt to deny , the conduct alleged against him, "but his ! Worship was satisfied that the allegation was perfectly true. * "This sort of offence is getting , far too common in this city," commented : Mr. Kettle, ."and Mt. Eden is the place . for blackguards' who go into parks and J perform acts of indecency within the t sight et children and others," he con- , tinued, addressing the prisoner. "You will be sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour." i PROVOKED PROFANITY. A young man, Percy Webb by name, [ defended by Mr. Lundon, denied having ' i used certain profane and indecent lan- ; j guage in a Heme Bay traincar on the '' night of Saturday, January 25,' as alleged , 1 against him. Sub-Inspector Gordon. 1 prosecuted, calling several witnesses, who 1 all declared that upon the night in question young Webb, in a condition bordering intoxication, poured forth several • volleys of particularly offensive language, ; induced apparently by the - involuntary upheaval of another passenger whose ' ! potations had induced him to violent i internal disorder. The aroused Webb who was sitting near 'the sick one, be- ■ came so irate that he struck the other i several times, aai made use of so much filthy language the while that several other passengers demanded his removal from the car, while one- went so far as to make a demonstration in force against him. According to' the testimony, he left, and then continued to explode in wrath upon the footpath. Webb protested that he never used the language ascribed t* him, but he certainly became much annoyed when the man in the car vomited over him. "I j demanded an apology and he laughed" I complained! Webb, "and I then struck jhim and called him a ignorant pig." Webb declared that he himself I had drunk nothing that night save two jport wines and lemonade; the man who I vomited admitted he was feeling pretty j bad—he had swallowed sundry whiskies, I I intermingled with . ice-cream, lemonade, ham and eggs, and cigars—"the usual I Saturday night, sir," he explained to the I Magistrate.