POLICE COURT NEWS
OBSCENE LANGUAGE USED
SEAMAN SENT TO PRISON
"I cannot remember anything about it," said Hugh Jones, aged 51, seaman, when charged in the Police Court on Saturday with drunkenness and with using obscene language.
It was stated in evidence that on Friday evening Constable Green saw accused in Upper Queen Street "trying to fight a telegraph pole." Accused was addicted to insobriety and had been convicted of various minor offences.
The njagistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean, passed sentence of two months' imprisonment on tile obscene language charge and imposed a fine of £2, in default 14 days in prison, ou the charge of drunkenness. For using obscene language in Union Street, City, on Friday evening, Anita King, aged 47, was fined £2, with the alternative of 14 days in prison. A weekwas allowed in which to make payment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21345, 21 November 1932, Page 11
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