VIOLENT IRISHMAN
BEIHAVIOUR SCARES WOMEN [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Wednesday "Accused said that was what the firemen did when they wanted to get in," said Sergeant M. J. Angland in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day, when John Casey, aged 42, a native of Iroland, pleaded guilty to a charge of committing mischief by wilfully destroying a glass panel valued at 10s in tho door of tho Catholic Presbytery, Hamilton. Dr. F. D. Pinfold and Mr. 11. E. Jacka, J.P.'s, were on tho Bench.
Sergeant Angland said accused called at the presbytery and asked to see a priest, as his mother was dying. He wns told no priest was there. lie returned later, and after threatening two women inside the. building, started hammering at tho back door, the glass panel of which was brokon. "Accused had somo liquor, but was far from' drunk," added tho sergeant. "He is a stranger here and lias made i a perfect nuisance of himself." In sentencing accused to 14 days* imprisonment with hard labour, the Court pointed out that it regarded the intimidation of unprotected .women more soriously than the damage to tho door. :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21377, 29 December 1932, Page 10
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