'YOU ARE A BEAST."

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 247, 17 October 1919, Page 5

'YOU ARE A BEAST."

AST OfBSOEXE liASHGTTAGE CASK. Several violent samples of those troxtlt that are banned from every trictioimzy were the basis of two counts of obscene language laid against Alexander Masters (36), a Scotsman, stated to b* a marine engineer, in the Poßoe Com* before Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.~\L, the morning. McMasjfcers wae also accused of being driffik at College iHTII, and the police charged him with using 13na obscene language in a loud voice in Bargreaves Street. The accused had nothing to say for himself except t-o plead not ginlty, ax& a pair of neighbours asseverated thai the remarks he was in the habit of making in hie own home were totally unfit for human consumption, aithongh they could be heard right across the street. Asked what he thought of McMasters' behaviour, a. next-door neighbour called it "Something ecandakrae" in a horrified tone of voice, saying, too, that the language was '""beyond all bearing. I have never beard sneh. language coming from a man." This witness told the Court in a chocked whisper what he had heard accused say to Airs. McJlaster?, and afeo repeated some terribly foul expressions .the man in the dock had used, to his little daughter, a girlie two years old. This and the other witnesses also deposed that McMaeters had been in the habit of saying these things for about two years part, and the police gave evidence to the effect that MoMasters had thrown tilings aj; his wife, and had filthy habile ! about the house.

••Will your Worship give mc a fine?" naked Monasters meekly as the Magistrate loaded him with seven days' for each charge, sentences concurrent, btrt the reply was emphatically no. "Yoji:are not lit for a fine," said the S.iM. '"Yen. are a beast. If you come here agaiin you will get months instead of a weei, and it would be well for you to .remember you are liable to twelve months in prison for doing things like 'that.' .