BEATEN BY BOOZE.

NZ Truth, Issue 240, 12 February 1910, Page 5

BEATEN BY BOOZE.

Entkotf s Downward Career.

Booze has got tiws better of Charles \ Enticott, whose matrimonial failure has' on more than one occasion been mentioned with severity m Wellington Magistrate's court. Charles E. used to be a land and estate agent, and, wrapped up m an enormous overcoat, has been caricatured m the public press as "Napoleon retreating from Moscow," the Russian town m this particular instance being a pawnshop. Then, again, Charles has a lamentably weak chin and has cultivated an 'Imperial" to hide the unfortunate fact. Beaten badly, by .booze, and being v^Vv-* c Z orld ' it>s reall y PiWul to behold him. The law is severe on drunks of his class, and Pakatoa Island yearns to claim him Jor its own. Tuesday last saw Charles E. advanced another stage m his career of moral decay, when, for drunkenness and the use of vile lanMr Riddell, S.M. The drunkenness, as it happened, was overlooked, but th e language was so shocking that it took £3 to satisfy the law's demands, or Charles as an alternative, would have to sol 3 °™ n i fot 14 da y s on * the Terrace. Monday afternoon Charles entered a gun-smith s emporium m Willis-street. He was bhthery and. wished to purchase a revolver. As his state was so shocking, the proprietor of the establishment considered it unwise to transact business and ordered him oft the premises. The result was that Charles stood at the door, and opened his flood-gate of filth on a respectable shopkeeper Charles, who had pleaded no€ guilty and couldn't believe % his eyes when Court Orderly Jones showed him a sample of his abuse, had nothing to say for himself. He was fined as stated.