AFTER MANY YEARS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 10 May 1912, Page 8

AFTER MANY YEARS.

SEQUEL TO HOTEL BRAWL

BY TELEGRAPH--PRESR ASSOCIATION

AUCKLAND, May 9

Jur.t on two years ago, when Maungai was known ns containing pretty vough elements, a little disturbance at an hotel there i ©suited in a Scandina.vian named Aaron Henrickson being ordered ont of the bar. The man turned round and abused tho hotel-keeper in vile language, and the matter' came to the ears of Constable Moss, who was stationed at the township. Henrickson was summoned to appear at -Court, but when hearing-day came round he had disappeared. Changing months brought Constable Moss to Auckland, and yesterday he dropped across Henrickson laboring in the city streets, so the summons was ratified after a lapse of two rears, and Henrickson had no notion but to answer the call of the Court this time. Fie admitted the use of obscenity. It was stated that the man's offence wa» the '-esuH of a lapse into drinking, after Henvickson had led a resoectnhle and sober existence, and that the shock of the summons had brought liim back to the mark of respectnbtfitv. It Mas the turning of a new leaf that had k^pt him hie! clou for so long, for ht> had done nothing to .'Jvrine him within police kt^n. He ivas convicted and *ned £5 and 2os costs.