COURT DIALOGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 239, 6 October 1923, Page 19

COURT DIALOGUE.

IF SHE WEBB A HAN. "Good morning, your Worshipl" cheerily said Helen Owen, 68, a married woman, of Stockwell Grove, when she appeared before a magistrate at Lambeth to answer the charge of being drunk and riotous. A constable said he found the prisoner offering to fight everybody she came across. Prisoner (laughing heartily): Then I must have been much dnmic; I didn't know I could fight. Constable: She called everybody "a dirty German," myself Included, Prisoner: Unfortunately my second husband is a very honest man. He looks all the world In the face. But he bas sot a nasty temper, and, unfortunately, I have a nasty temper, too. The last time I was here was on St. Patrick's Day. Magistrate: I don't know anything about that, Mrs. Owen. Prisoner: My name is Owen Bnrdett. An Irishwoman and myself had a row. I took some lemonade and bitter to . wash the Insult down, and I fell safe In the arms of a policeman. Magistrate: She Iβ an excitable woman by temperament. Constable: She Is a nnlsance to the neighbourhood. ! Prisoner: I wish I was a man Instead of a woman. I would knock the teeth down the throats of some of the people who insult mc. Magistrate: It is fortunate for the public that you aro not a man. Pay 40/.