A TANKED TEUTON.

NZ Truth, Issue 135, 18 January 1908, Page 6

A TANKED TEUTON.

■ ♦ • "Milky's" Mild Manner. Racharfr Miehlke, a hard-faced individual who figured as a witness m scenes of violence portrayed during the late ' hearing of Wellington "twoup" cases and proceedings arising therefrom-, had a day out on Saturday last and fell into the arms of the Law. "Milky" sat him down onthe kerb near the Royal Oak Hotel, and was juggling with coins and yelling somewhat. Bobby Stewart, who pervades that quarter, spoke to the hilarious German, without effect, and for sometime afterwards the beery person imagined ;he was a member of the Opera Company or a fruit . merchant, or something, for the air • was filled with defiant sounds. At length the bobby took a hand, and Miehlke went unwillingly to the Police Station and proceeded to smash things when he got there. He "kicked the bucket" and -still survives, although the bucket resigned from active service, and the infuriated Teuton also smashed a window. He likwise demonstrated that his lungs were m excellent order, and although he acknowledged drunkenness and attempted to induce the constable to say he went quietly to the station, he was convicted. Miehlke's explanation that he had been merely counting his cash and hadn't made remarks loud enough to wake the departed didn't impress the) Magistrate, who imposed fines aggre-* gating 30s, and ordered the payment of damage lis 6tl, m default «even days' hard.