A DAY OUT
RETURNING HOME
A Flit R VISIT TO TOWN,
ROW IN RAILWAY CARRIAGE
Tw> charges were preferred aga.nst Maurice Moore at the Magistrate’s ‘jCourt, before Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M. to-day, viz., with using obscene language “at Kaiata in a railway carriage on the 13th July and with breaking a railway carriage window valued at 12/6, the property of the New Zealand Gov-
ernment. Det-Sergt. Rawle sad that on the 13th July? Moore was a passenger on the Reefton train and used the obscene language to Mr. Blewman, a fellow passenger. After passing Kaiata he rip A red to fight nil and sundry, finally breaking (he window. There were no women in the second class carriage. Mr. Joyce, who appeared for Moore, said the defendant came to town on the 33(,h and was drinking wine. Vhen returning he got into an argument. When sober he wa e a good conscientious worker. lie was a married man with a family. After summing up the evidence His Worship fined Moore £5 on the charge of obscene language, and ordered him to pay 12/6, the value of the broken window.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1920, Page 2
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