"WILD PARTIES"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1932, Page 13

"WILD PARTIES"

HOUSE OCCUPANTS IMPRISONED

A special watch kept by the police on a house in Tui street, where'"wild parties" were stated to continue until 4 o'clock in the morning, and' a subsequent complaint by a man named Mcliwee that he' had been, assaulted by a man in the house, resulted ,ri the appearance at the Magistrate's Court to-day of Maisie Pepi per, aged 35, Je.in Rowlings, aged 36, John Edward Maurice Hynes, Thomas Ridout, aged 50, and Joseph loaba, aged 36, on vagrancy charges. Pepper; Hynes, and Ridout pleaded not guilty to charges of being idle and disorderly in that they habitually consorted with reputed thieves and other undesirables. Similar pleas were entered by. loaba,_ who was charged with being the occupier of a house frequented by thieves and persons with no visible means of support, and Rowlings, who was charged with being found in the house. ' Constable Scott said that, on*3rd June, Mcliwee complained to him that someone in the house in Tui street had ■ assaulted him -with an iron bar. When he went with Mullwee to the house the door was ■—>encl fey, Rowlings. There were eight or nine men inside. ' '".-. t J Constable Paget said that practically every night there were parties in the house. The' people taking part in them appeared to be drunk; and the bad language they used could-be;heard from" the street. .■;-•- '-. - ■.'.■■' .■. ... .- ' ■.. ,■■ :......-. ■ '■'

; Senior-Sergeant Scott said' that ■! the accused, with the exception of loaba, had been convicted for theft. ~ The women were known as undesirables. ' ' ■

The Magistrate, Mr. E. Page, convicted all the accused and sentenced them "to gaol for three' months. 'Hynes was convicted and discharged ona charge of drunkenness, and Ridout for ■ a breach of a'prohibition order. ■