MOT GUILTY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 7

MOT GUILTY.

DOMESTIC BEFORE COURT AN ARRESTED FLIGHT A female second offender named Dolly Ernshaw, a domestic, appeared before Mr A. E. Bennett, J.P., at a sitting of the Police Court this morning to answer a charge of having been found drunk in College Street yesterday.. Her plea of not guilty necessitated Sergeant Power entering the box to explain that, in consequence of information received, ho had proceeded to a house on the eastern side of the town. While in conversation with the householder, accused had made good her escape through a window, climbed over a fence and had run along College Street, being arrested in that thoroughfare.

When asked if she had any question to put, accused replied in the affirmativ. Sho admitted the soft impeachment that she had had a drink, but denied that sho had been “under the Influence,” otherwise how could she have climbed through the window, scaled the fence and run along the street.? The Bench : What did you run away for, then. ? Accused: I heard Sergeant Power s voice. ‘ Tho Bench: Oh, you knew him then. The sergeant mentioned that accused had been before the court in December last. She had been recently in Nelson, but had returned to town last Thursday in company with her little girl and had been drinking since. The Bench asked accused where her husband was, and on being informed enquired whether it was her intention to return to him. Accused: I was going last night. The Bench: 1 will convict and discharge accused conditionally on her being out of town within twenty-four hours. Accused: Can I take my little girl. The Bench : Certainly !