CAPERS AT CAVERSHAM.

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

CAPERS AT CAVERSHAM.

Walter Goodman pleaded guilty at the Dunedin Police Court . last week to having been drunk and to having resisted Constable Heard m the execution of his duty, the offences occurring k little after midnight on the previous night. The Sub-inspector said the '■'■. constable bad been called up as a result o( > accused having annoyed Maggie AicWwan (a married woman whose little troubles were recently ventilated m '.'Truth"). He had also gone to two other houses and had annoyed the inmates. He, was warned to go home, but refused,' and when arrested he became very violent, -.-in the cells accused toll the constable that lie would give him as much -trouble,-. as,, he could. Accused bad been 1,7 time* piGtioucly convicted. ._ ;■ ' % \

Accused said he was with the husband of r'Jhe woman, he was" supposed to have insulted. If it hadn't been for Mrs McEwan he wouldn't have been nabbed. The trouble commenced by Maggie slapping her hubby on the face. ' ' Magistrate Bartholomew dqalt put fines of 5s for drunkenness, and 40s for resisting- ..;.; ..■:" ■ ' :.' ".. ' : ' ■'-,