SNARES OF THE CITY
ENTRAP MAN FROM THE BACKBLOCKS. 'Why do you always catch mo when 1 come in from the backblocks?” indignantly asked Robert Laudy, alias Lundy, of Constable Munro, at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, when called upon to explain a third lapse from sobriety, the use of obscene language, and a breach of his prohibition order. “If you stayed in the backblocks, ,lie would not catch you,” remarked Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. Several of the men in Court smiled,, whereupon the accused, pointing a linger at them, asked the arresting constable, “Why don’t you arrest some of these curs here, instead of always lying in wait for me?” . "That will do,” sharply said the Magistrate, as he fined the accused LT, or three days for drunkenness, £2 or seven days ‘for obscene language, and convicted and discharged him for the breach of his prohibition order. ‘Thanks,” muttered the accused, as he swung out of the dock.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 173, 10 April 1923, Page 5
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