GAOL BY REQUEST.
■"MAKE IT TWO MONTHS."
PRISONER'S INSISTENCE
MAGISTRATE OBLIGES
It is common for magistrates to make orders for prohibition orders, maintenance, separation, and even for a period of detention on the inebriates' island by consent, but a sentence of imprisonment by consent .and by request is rare. It happened at the Police Court this morning. Ernest Kdwartl Cuthberteon Maxey, aged SI, labourer, was charged with being drunk in Queen Street yesterday, and further with procuring liquor while prohibited. "I suppose I'd better plead guilty to both," he sgid nonchalantly and with a smile. Detective Sergeant Kelly said Maxey was making his 80th appearance in Court, i "(live me a chance, or give me gaol— one or the other; I don't rare which!" laid Maxey to the magistrate. "I've been giving you chances for years. You're fined £."> or one month's imprisonment," said Mr. F. K. Hunt.
Maxey: Make it two months. Mr. Hunt: No, one month. Maxey: Oh, go on, two months! Mr. Hunt: All right, then, it will be two months. (Laughter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 137, 11 June 1932, Page 10
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174GAOL BY REQUEST. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 137, 11 June 1932, Page 10
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