FLYING MANDARINS.
FRUITERER'S WINDOW BROKEN. "A DRUNKEN FREAK."
Described by Sub-Inspector Shanalian as "a drunken freak," an episode in Victoria Street late on Saturday niglit, in which a man threw mandarins and broke a shop window, led to the appearance in the Police Court this morning of Charles Alexander Dickey, a seaman aged 25. Accused pleaded guilty: to charges of being drunk and of causing mischief by wilfully damaging a plate glass window valued at £1. - Sub-Inspector ShaiVahfin ' said that about 11.30 on Saturday night accused -lihd was : Walking np' Victoria Street with- : another man. When they got'to the shop of an Indian fruiterer wlio was moving his fruit from his door, accused helped himself to some mandarins.The Indian . asked' for them back," but without a: word. Dickey walked on to the road and threw, the fruit at the window and broke it. The whole. affair was a drunken froak. Accused . was fined ,5/ on the firs! charge, £1 on the second, and, was ordered to pay witnesses' expenses, £)..
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 230, 29 September 1930, Page 9
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