SILENCE.
POLICE COURT COMEDY. AUCKLAND YOUTH'S SHOCK. A young man who didn't properly appreciate the necessity for observing proper decorum in the Police Court this morning got a sudden shock. The indifferent acoustics of the Court had been rendered rather worse than usual by shullling of feet among the idly curious people at the back and sotto voce converliatioru, in various parts of the room, and the t'ourt orderly had r-everai times shouted "Silence!" At this stage a yonng man, under cover of the onlookers lined along the barrier, took occasion to stride rapidly and rowdily across the back of the Court. There was more than a suspicion of bravado about the thump of his hcelo, and the Court orderly, having quickly taken up a strategic position, observed that this walk-a-cross was just a "show-off," which appeared to be a huge joke to the young man and his mates. The orderly took prompt action, and the young man once more strode rapidly and rowdily across the back of the Court, but this time the performance was done under the pressure of bony police knuckles at the nape of his neck, and there was no suspicion of bravado m ithe sound of his heels, while he finished his constitutional in the prisoner"* room. Ten minutes later he was escorted to the dock and asked to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt of court. "I want the charge to be particular- ■ ised," said he. I "1 think you are the person who j tramped acros- the bark of the Court 'making enough noise to wake the dead," 'said Mr. Frazer. S.M.
Prisoner said that he didn't make enough noise to wake the dead, and his voice showed that peculiar deliberation and ca.re in articulation that is usually associated with persons who have reach ed the "awlish" stage in convivial argument.
The Court orderly got into the box and was sworn in the, modern way which has succeeded the old B;b[c-os"culation oath.
"Kiss the hook!" suddenly ejaculated the young man in the dock in the stern manner of one who has detected a person in a penal offence.
"I think the man is either drunk or silly." said the magistrate. "I will remand him till to-morrow morning. His Worship added to Inspector McGrath that the young man could be let out on lad when he had <rot over the effects of
SILENCE.
Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 6
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