MAGISTRATE ANGRY

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1927, Page 10

MAGISTRATE ANGRY

EXCHANGES IN COURT. AUCKLAND, June 16. “Who is this young blackguard? What does lie do?” asked Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., with wrath, in the Police Court this morning. Chief-Detective Cummings had just explained that a girl of seventeen who was before the Court for sentence on a charge of stealing £3 had been living with a diminutive young man in a salmon check shirt and collar, sitting in the body of the Court. The little man stood up. “I’m a professional entertainer, sir,” he said, and added under pressure that he was out of work at present. “You blackguard!” repeated the Magistrate. “Spoiling a little girl like that. I’ll give you gaol for three months if I get half a chance.” z He placed the girl on probation for two years, and then turned to Major Annie Gordon, Probation Officer. If she doesn’t do exactly as you tell her, I’ll send her to the Borstal for three years. And, look here, if that young blackguard goes near her —. I’ll make it a condition of her probation that she is not to speak to him, nor associate with him in any way.” “But I want to marry the little girl,” protested the young man in the salmon shirt. “How can you marry her when you aren’t earning twopence?” retorted the Magistrate abruptly. “But I can get a steady job,” persisted the object of the Bench’s wrath. “If you go near the girl I’ll give you three months,” replied Mr. Hunt. “If you had a steady job she wouldn’t have to steal to keep you.”