L0IDDLE LAGGED.

NZ Truth, Issue 472, 4 July 1914, Page 4

LOIDDLE LAGGED.

Threa Months' Cold Stono Jug.

For it very lengthy poriod, indeed, Mr. George kiddle, pointer when he worked, and tout always, trot a decently fair run. But George was lowdown nnd a very bad Rnmptc of the Athol-pltu-o mftatwr, lie m nn accurate specimen ot the whit.; «Uvc-

driver,, and; in such capacity he is well and infamously known. : Liddle was picked up m a drunken condition inMaclaggan-street. He was on the iprowl.in that salubrious quarter. Cop. Bandy it was who had pinched. Mr. Liddle, and as Bill got the hoary bewhiskered old bludger m bis ample embraco, he wrote after George's name, m the arrest book, "Rogue and vagabond;, habitually consorting with : thieves arid prostitutes. 1 ' . Before. Magistrate Bartholomew, Liddle denied tiie outrageous charge, and plucked his .white, scraggy beard. ." Cop Bill Bandy 'said: He is the very nightmare of the slums, and a continual menace to industrious demlmorale. • \ 'Tec. Hammerley also heaved bombshells on "Liddle, and a bloke with two bunged eyes could easily see that the Athol- place i tout was a gone coon. • : 'Tec. Hammerley: On Sunday, April 12, I was called to Athol-place at 8 a.m. There I saw Belle Jolly, Nellie Lynch, Charles Thurston, George Liddell (the accused), and John Ford (also charged as a rogue and a vag.), Thurston is a convicted sly-grog seller and a reputed thief. They were all more or less intoxicated, and were having what they considered "a regular jamboree."; ;

■ Tho S.M.: Three months with hard labor. .