WELL-DESERVED PUNISHMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 49, 20 September 1905, Page 2

WELL-DESERVED PUNISHMENT.

1 • ) Te'egraph P*es3 Association Cdpyrigfcfi 3 Inveikmkgill. September 19. Seven youths were before the Court on a charge of using behaviour calculated to create a breach of the peace on a recent Sunday. The facts 3 were that a young man was outr walking with a lady when the ac--3 cused squirted water on them froia i a toy pistol, and on remonstraaree I twice knocked the man down. One 3 of the defendants was discharged,. 3 but regarding the other six the* Magistrate, Mr McCarthy, said they . were acting in concert and all wereresponsible for the act 3of the par. ticular members in the attack on 3 Glover, who was escorting the young; 3 lady. It was unpardonable, cowardly,! ) and brutal, and steps must be taken, j to put a slop^ft conduct of this oufc- ; rageous sbrt.^The defendants wera sons of alleged respectable parents^ but they did not know how to behave. themselves^ and he proposed to gmj f them some inducement to beha*y a . better in future. Each defendant , was fined £5 and ordered ta find , sureties for £50 to keep the pe^co for 12 months.