AN ARMED DRUNK.

NZ Truth, Issue 282, 19 November 1910, Page 6

AN ARMED DRUNK.

Whitelaw on the Waipiro.

* - A drunken man with a gtin is., not 1 a desirable person to have at 'large, l but that was the position when Douglas Whitelaw went out on the Papanui-road, Christchurch,. to shoot fantods or other weird .animals. • Doue-lns was seen and avoided by a j number of people, and one of them \ told the conductor of a speeding

tram to looJc out as there was a man waiting to shoot up the road. Whitelaw, a. burly, villainous-looking person, was found at the next tram stop and tried to board the car with his - murderous weapon, butwas forcibly prevented from doing so. • Whereupon, Whitelaw made use of some obscene blanky m the presence of lady passengers. When the car got to Papanui the conductor com/jlained to the police sergeant, who s?;nt an athletic copper down, and a>a arrest was effected. Haled befortf Magistrate . Bishop, Douglas plead led not guilty "to the language; said' he had no recollection of it ; and evidence being taken the above ta-tfts were elicited. A conviction wfis entered up, and when the man's rf jcord was examined he was found t,o have committed a similar offence /previously. "If you fine me," pleaded .Douglas, "will you give me time to pay the fine ?" His Worship remarked that he would probably send him to gaol. "What do you do for a living ?" he asked. Whitelaw replied that he was a shearer and rrmsterer and was anxious to get away to toil. The Magistrate wanteel to know who the man was, and "7Pec. Osborne said that he was a J.aborer and was a nuisance wherever he went. Fourteen days.