A RAILWAY RACKET.

NZ Truth, Issue 380, 5 October 1912, Page 6

A RAILWAY RACKET.

Platform Smoko m S.M.s Court

Arthur or .James Willimns appears to \m v favorite name on the charge sheets. at the courts these times. It i.s only recently thnt Arthur James Williams, the kelchuured traveller, who iwis departed the holy shores, was lined for drunkenness, the same gent having previously been run m for bother with his motor biku. Then there was •J-uncti Willinms. who got three years for xissaultinjr «. woman near Oamaru. unil last, but not least, comes Arthur Williams, who wus hailed before Mr Bartholo-

mew, S.M., m the S.M.s Court last Monday, charged with using gbscene language: and sinoking on the railway platform. He was represented by Lawyer A. C. Hanlon, who tendered a plea, of guilty to both charges. • He stated that the young fellow had gono down to the railway station a few. drinks m, he had been told to stop smoking. A rackef.ensued, and Williams had used, one profane word. Williams did not remember using the word, but if the porters swore that he did, Williams was not prepared to deny it. The S.M. : The by-law under which this charge of smoking on the platform is laid, is more honored m the breach than the observance, I think. Mr Hanlon : That is so, sir. I've never been stopped from smoking on the platform. ' Sub-Inspectbr Fouhy : It isn't so much that, your Worship, but this young ' man refused to desist when requested to do so, and also followed that up with, bad language. Williams wis lined a bob for the smoking business, and twenty bob for the profanity. Costs fourteen "deeners.'' •