CASSERLEY'S CAPERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 407, 12 April 1913, Page 7

CASSERLEY'S CAPERS.

His Joyfnl Jamboree. A Shooting Gallery • Scrap. "Quarrelsome beer" •qras evidently being dispensed m some of the Wellington pubberies on Wednesday,. judging by the series of charges preferred." against a rough-looking cove itemed John Oasserley at the Wellington S.M.s Court, on Thursday. John's' top-piece is "thickly thatched, resembling an inverted house-mop, while his "dial" is typical of that 6f the man WHO STOPPED A TRACTION ENGINE. Jolly Jack, while on a jamboree, blew into a shooting gallery on Wednesday night about i0j.15 o'clock, and immediately began to talk shop or something undelectablo to a number of firemen who were gathered together m the pop-gun shop. Of course, the inevitable figbt followed, and thing's were busy and doing- for a while. Placed round the building are a number of slot machines, and the prosecution alleged that, m the course of a Johnson- Jeffries encounter, the accused Cassorley, knocked j one of these instruments (a fortune teller) over, doing damage to the extent of £5. In addition, he was charged' with assaulting the boss of the concern (Walter Prowdfoot). After bearing evidence, his Worship, Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., RECORDED CONVICTIONS m each* charge, inflicting no penalty for getting "swanked," but fined accused iOs or seven days for assault, and ordered that the damage to the machine be paid, m default fourteen days' hard. Jack requested time to find the sponze, but he was told .the "Jack" Department would assist m gathering the seven odd quidlets.