STRANGE ACTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 6

STRANGE ACTIONS

Delusions that someone had played him a mean trick were responsible for some strange actions on the part of a man named Joseph Patrick O'Connor one day in the early part of this month. He paid a visit to Rodder's fish shop at the rear of Veitch and Allan's drapery establishment and had a. meal. When the time came for payment O'Connor expressed the view that he had been invited in, and was therefore under no obligation to the shopkeeper. That this impression was entirely enoneous was driven home to O'Connor, who eventually left tho establishment. He had not been a.way many minutes, however, when he returned and demanded his bicycle. This request had the shopkeeper beaten a.s there was no sign of any bicycle, and he told O'Connor so. Thereupon O'Connor went outside, and threw a brick through the window. This was the story told at the Magistrate's Court to-day when O'Connor, who was described as a waterside worker,l was charged with . wilfully dama-ffing a pane of glass to the extent of £2 sb. He pleaded jruilty and was ordered by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., to make good the damage.