ROWDY PAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 11, 14 January 1929, Page 5

ROWDY PAIR.

NEIGHBOURS DISTURBED. BAKER STREET CAROUSAL. MAN* AXD WOMAN' CHAKGED. Disturbance* at 14. Bakci Street. Frcenwn's Bay. have given ri~e to complaint* by ne:j:lil.ours, and surveillance of the place by the police resulted las-t exening in tlio arrest of Kmma Williams. 3d. domestic, of Tonga, and Mur.Jo Mcßae, 2*5. a seaman. Roth appeared before Mr. \V. 11. McKran. S.M.. at the Police Court this morning, charged with being drunk, a!id idle and disorderly.

"This wtiman has ghen a great deal of trouble.'' Sub-luspc-clor Mi-Carthy, when Knima Williams stood in the dock. "When found la>t evening; the was practically naked. For her own protection something should i>p done for her." The a<Tii*eil had been under observation by jhe police for mmc lim», but this was her lirst appearance in court. To the magistrate she said she was keeping her>elf. though unable to mention »ny work she had done within the past few months. Mr. McCarthy: She seems to be drifting from one disreputable bouse to another. A fine of 10/, or 24 lioirre" imprisonment, was imposed on the charge of drunkenness, and accused was convicted and ordered to come np for sentence in six months on the second charpr. She was ordered to ta.ke out & prohibition onier in the meantime.

Mcßae. charged, said he had done ten days' work since he was discharged from the Kaiwarra last August. It was stated that residents in the vicinity of 14, Baker Street, had complained about Mcßae's conduct, and on the occasion of the arr.-t-t tb« police found aiwut twenty empty bottles. "He has been associating with undesirable women and frequenting boose* of disrepute," said Mr. McCarthy. In rej.ly to questions by the magistrate as to how he had obtained a livelihood, accused said he Lad been forced into selling his clothes, and had verv little left.

Mr. McKean: Your conduct has been anything but satisfactory for a long time. There are the complaints of neighbours, and you certainly have done no work to keep you honestly. On the charge of being drunk Mcßae was fined 20/, or 48 hours, and on a second charge of committing a breach of a prohibition order he was fined £2 or seven days. In connection with the third charge against him, which was one of being idle and disorderly, he was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment.