OBSCENE LANGUAGE

Evening Star, Issue 12603, 7 September 1905, Page 6

OBSCENE LANGUAGE

THREE MONTHS’ PRISON. Mr Graham, SAL, sitting at the Police Court this morning, dealt with three young men who were charged with using obscene language in Albany street last night. Patrick Brosnan, the first brought up, pleaded not guilty. Constable M’Glone deposed that at about 10.30 p.m. accused and two others were standing in tbe middle of the toad in Albany street, and accused made use of the language complained of. Witness at once arrested him. Mr Graham: Were there any females about? Witness: Yes. Mr Graham : Within bearing? Witness: Within hearing, passing up and down the street at the time. Witness added that Constable Danboey and himself stood for two or three minutes to make sure before arresting. The men were speaking very loudly. Accused: Were any persons about when we were having this conversation? Witness; People were passing. Accused: Did anyone moke a complaint to yon? Witne®: No. Const able Daubney said that h* and M'Gione watched and listened from the post office for a considerable time, and then moved up closer to the hall, where a dance was going on, unseen by the accused. Brosnan gave the name of Owen Brown. He was slightly under the influence of liquor, but not drunk. To Accused: Two young ladies passed while the men were singing out. at the top of their voices. Accused, giving evidence oil oath, said that be went to tbe dance about nine o’clock, and had a couple of dances, then left, and met a friend with whom he went to the Captain Cook for a drink, and they then stood outside the hall having a conversation about Baidutha. He did not remember using the language that the constables had taken a note of. Mr Graham: You merely do not remember, yon say. You do not deny it. Accused: Yes, I deny it. To Sub-inspector Green: I am a groom or hotel porter, and was in work up to Monditv night. I have been before the Court, "previously. 1 am going on for nineteen years of ago. I am discharged from tbe Burnham Industrial School. 1 have served a sentence of twelve months for breaking and entering* Mr Axeieon said that since Brosnan was last. tone, in prison he had made a good struggle to get on. Mi Graham, after perusing accused’s record, said that this was as disgusting a case as he had. ever had before him, and it would be out of place to give accused the option <rf a fine. He would be sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Arthur Gorham, similarly charged, also pleaded not guilty.—The constables said they were sore that be used the words complained of. The three accused were lighting cigarettes, and thus showed their feces, eo that as each spoke he could be picked out. Gorham’s language was not so bad as Brosnan "s,—The Sub-inspector said that this lad had never been in tbe hands of the police before. —His Worship aud that Gorham’s language was very disgusting, but it aw not quite so bad as tbe other roan’s, and as be was a first offender he would be let off with a fine of 60s, m default a month’s impnsOTunent. David Lowen, the third of the party, also proved to bo a first offender, and, the offexioe being proved on the evidence of tne two constables, he also was fined 60s* in foalt <me month’s imprisonment.