A WASTER.

NZ Truth, Issue 172, 3 October 1908, Page 4

A WASTER.

HALL OUT OF HARM'S WAY. A Pest that was Properly Punished, Ernest Hall is a no-class person, a scoundrel, and a pest, an excrescence on the face of this Godsownfeuntry, and lie ought to be kept m durance vile for the term of his natural life. This obnoxious and filthy-mouthed slrunk came tefore Mr Riddell at the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, charged with assault*ing Louisa Maud Ketts. , First of all, the coot pleaded not guilty, but when Sub-Inspector Phair applied for a remand for the, purpose of calling -evidence, Hall relented and pleaded guilty,' evidently, thinking he'd get oft lightly with a fine of a few bob. But Hall forgot that he had the unrelenting Riddel! to deal with. The Sub-Inspect or explained that Hall had, for a time, kept company with the girl Ketts but latterly she had displayed a repugnance towards her admirer and endeavored to ri-.l herself of his attentions, but he wci:l '. persist m pestering her. On Monday night Hall had gone to Mrs Leslie's house at Oriental Bay, where the girl was employed as a domestic, and HAD HURLED A BOTTLE through the window at her, striking her on the breast. Not content with this cowardly act, the cur has hurled a second dead marine, which was shattered on the stove near where the girl was standing. He also used most filthy and objectionable language, a practice with which he appears to l:c very famil ar, as he had been sentenced to fourteen days' gaol for using o'oscene language early last month. Hall spun a yarn abo»t someone having sent him with- a bottle of brandy.to the house and made use of expressions with a viewv'to injuring the Ri Is chavactr, but it did n't go down wilh thj Magistrate, who merely remarked, "You'll l;e fined £5, m (Vault 21 days' impri'-ontrent wi'h lirrd labor." "WiU you L'ive-me time to pay, your Worship ?" asked Hall. "No lime," passively remarked Mr Riddel!, and Hall was howl d away to jraol. theie to ponder, over his . wickedness I amongst the greybacks on the Terrace. '

When a civilian who has been assaulted <• appears m court he is gnerally one mass ; of bruises, his head generously .bandaged, ; teeth ahsenb, and'' all that sort of thing. When a police constable has been assaulted, savagely attacked, and so on, there ■ is idevil a mai-i-rk. H'm, nufi sed. [