GALLAGHER GALLED.

NZ Truth, Issue 243, 19 February 1910, Page 7

GALLAGHER GALLED.

His Sweet Slumber Smashed Up.

No coherent plea was made by Patrick Gallagher, who appeared at the Dunedin Police Court on February, 10 to answ« a charge of having been .disorderly while drunk m King-street on the previous evening. All he said w3s:* VThey went and pulled me out into the street." Constable Smith told about having been sent to King-street to look after a shindy that, was proceeding. Accused was; standing m the middle of the? .road with only his shirt and trousers on, v the , rest of his clothes being on the road ' beside him- He had., & fair crowd around him, and was making a great row by calling : for -.' the police. -„-•-• . -1 - .. . ! :■..•-,•:■•. Accused:. .That's all the 'language I used— l only asked for the : police; r i Three men came up and pulled me Qut of bed The constable said accused had -apparently slipped* into'" the boaruin&-h'ouse and had taken a bed to , which he wasn't .entitled, for, which reason the:, proprietress had him turned (put.. ..,,,., „.;... Accused : Three "men came 1 upstairs and pulled me out of bed, and dragged me dow^'the stairs into the > street. l gave the woman 21s the day previously. Elizabeth Smith, proprietress of the Real Mackay boarding-house, said accused had been boarding with her "recently, bat had been told to make himself, scarce . as. the result of some unpleasantness. . Ho came: m and went to bed in J .the roopi.he had previously occupied, which had bfcen let to another man. She catied' I.OTl .OT ibree; of the boarders to put him out as~"*he, couldn't do it herself. - ; : You gave me no time ; to : ' get out.. If they'd left., me lying^asleep.in the bed i wouldn't done any' harm ta anyr body and I wouldn't be here.. They dragged me like a bag down stairs. w ..-■' Magistrate Bartholomew Said it' seemed' hard 'that a drunken man should be turned out into the street m the way accused had been. It was only to be expected that trouble would .. ensue. The police should have been , called on to elect him. In the present -circumstances the offence was practically forced on ac 1 bused. The case would be -met by. accused being ordered to pay the expenses oftbe case.