PASSENGERS ANNOYED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 73, 29 March 1937, Page 3

PASSENGERS ANNOYED

ILL BEHAVIOUR ON TRAIN

The behaviour of Bernard Joseph Brophy, a labourer, aged 24, on the train from F^atherston after the Tauherenikau races on Saturday evening led to his being arrested when the train arrived at Upper Hutt at 8 o'clock and he appeared before Messrs. W. Greig and J. T. Benge, J.P.s, in the Upper Hutt Court today charged with using obscene language, drunk and disorderly behaviour, and doing damage by breaking a window' valued at 12s 6d, belonging to the Railway Department.

Constable C. F. Stewart said that Brophy had been drinking at the races and his. behaviour in the railway carriage was annoying to the other passengers. He put his hand through a window, thereby cutting himself, and he also used obscene language.

The Justices told Brophy that he was liable to go to prison for offences such as he had committed, but they would give him a chance.

For being drunk and disorderly he was convicted and discharged. For the use of obscene language he was fined £3, and for breaking a window he was fined £1 and ordered to pay the cost of .repairs and .witnesses' expenses.