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NZ Truth, Issue 173, 10 October 1908, Page 5

■An "Eye-Witness" -writes, to "Truth" thus :— "Have some Wellington' girls no more respect for themselves or their country than to be seen strolling through the city arm-in-arm quite lovingly witn a Chow?" "Critic" can say nothing about, ihe girls' respect, only that they ought to.be vagged. ' A singular thing happened m; Christchurch S.M. Court recently, when Jphn James Jackson, alias Joseph Davidson, pleaded not guilty, with indignation, to a charge of stealing Ihr.e sovereigns from 1 an inebriated person named Daniel Connolly. Magistrate Bishop looked surprised and told the police to prove th^ir case.i Thereupon "Jackson, or Davidson, or whatever his name is, said, "I plea,d not guilty to taking three soverei n , but I took two. The gentjeman only had, two m his pocket, he'd/ broken the other sovereign." His Worship remarked that it was a mere; accident that Jackson hadn't, had the opportunity of taking three instead of two sovereign , and he inquired the circumstances. It Was the same old tale of robbing the drunk, according to Serjeant Johnston, who mentioned that Jackson bad "picked the gentleman up," took him away, and went, through him. The culprit came up from Dunedin recently, and had a record. Magistrate Bishop noted that the last term served hatf been nine months, and rele- , gated Jackson to Cleary's appalling pub , for the- space of twelve months. , .