JOYCE JUGGED.

NZ Truth, Issue 253, 30 April 1910, Page 7

JOYCE JUGGED.

Swears at Sweeney.

At about, tea minutes to eight on Monday evening, the peace of Constable Sweeney was sadly disturbed while .he was on beat m Fleet-street, Dunedin. Mis practised eye caught . sight or" Martin Joyce m a state of advanced swankiness, and -he at once laid the -hand ot the law 6n him. • Martin came qouietly as i'ar as High-street, but then asked what -be was being boobed for, and, , on being told, lay down on the footpath [ and kicked blue blazes out of the air. He was again put on his feet and helped along tnc way, but at Jacobs' corner . (Princesstreet), where he was being, got ready to be put m a cab, he once more bro^e out and made himself hard to hold. Constable '«], J. Hodgson was standing on the opposite corner and came to the assistance of .Sweeney, who was having a pretty harfl time. Together the bobbles carried. Martin to the oab of one John Hodge, and, after a scuttle, got him safely inside; but not beiore he had spat up a lot of stuff that didn't suit the ears of the women and children who were present m fairly large numbers. The cab had recently been done up, and " Martin managed to bend a brass rail and scratch a good deal of the- fresh paint, In the Dunedin Police Court on Tuesday morning, before Magistrate Widdow- i son, Martin pleaded guilty to shikkur- 1 osity, but not gwilty to resisting the police, using obscene language, and damaging the cab. He said that it was a raru thing for him to get drunk, and on this occasion he couldn't remember having done anything. (Martin had been twice previously convicted for swankiness during the past six months, the last occasion being April 6.) Tb,e.! Sub-Inspector said Martin . had eighteen previous convictions, the offences including theft, language, assault, disorderly conduct, and a big swag of plain drunks. \ „- ..The.'.'.'S.M. pushed -m the following cumulative sentences :— Drun'-ennesb,. 14 days ; language, two months ; resisting, 40s" or one month; damage, pay 10s and 3s for a witness, or 14 days.