"DRUNKEN BLACKGUARD”
INSULTING WOMEN IN THE STREET TWELVE MONTHS TO THINK IT OVER (Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 6. “ I am not going to have drunken blackguards like you wandering about the streets using obscene language and chasing women and girls,” remarked Sir Justice Stringer in the Supreme Court in sentencing James David Henry lleid, ■ aged thirty-four, to twelve months’ imprisonment for obscene language and indecent exposure in the street “You were sentenced to six months’ imprisonment before for a serious offence. You will now do twelve; that, perhaps, will teach you that you cannot do that sort of thing in this country, to which you say you have only recently come.. When you come out you may possibly be a respectable member of society.” Prisoner said be was drunk at the time, and remembered nothing of his actions He had only been in New Zealand a short period when he received six months’ imprisonment. The jury returned a verdict of guilty without retiring.
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Evening Star, Issue 19549, 6 May 1927, Page 6
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