PROOF HE WAS DRUNK
THOUGHT POST OFFICE WAS HOTEL. Mistaking th© Chief Post Office for a hotel accounted for Alexander Gale, an engine driver from Gisborne, appearing before Mr. A. M Mowlem, S.M., at the Napier Magistrate’s Court this morning, charged with wilfully damaging a door to the value of £l. th© property of the Government. Detective-Sergeant Butler stated that at halfpast one in the morning of September 25 a crash was heard at the Post Office buildings. Employees working upstairs on coming down to investigate, found that the door leading into the Chief Postmaster’s room had been damaged. Detective-Sergeant Butler said he di-' not suggest that the defendant in doing so had any criminal intent. He was apparently wandering around in a semi-drunken state and thought that he was at a hotel The defendant who pleaded guilty said that he was under the influence of liquor at the time and could not remember anything. In addition paying the cost of the door, defendant was fined £2 in default one month’s imprisonment.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 October 1927, Page 5
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