LARKIN'S LARKS.

NZ Truth, Issue 570, 20 May 1916, Page 6

LARKIN'S LARKS.

Where they Landed Him. Francis Alfred Larkin had been larking with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile by buying bogß from them with no money, and Belling them to people possessed ' of coin. Ho Imagined that ho had a farm at Maatexton, and. on the strength of this hallucination, he got as many bags as would, bag all tho oats of a 640 acre farm. Mr. P. W. Jnckson appeared for the larking Larkin, and mentioned all tho good things which ho knew of hU client. Chief of which was that ho (Mr. Jackson) had known him to bo a carrier, a publican and a* good sort of follow for the last 15 yearn. Unfortunately "Mr. Booze'^wajj tho bairpln hi the soup and Larkin. had DALLIED WITH THE DRINK until It caught him where ho felt dryeat. Ho became a -devoted slave to "Mr. Booze," and whim Buffering from hla cloße ttiquainUvneo he did thoso things which ho ought not to have done, and there was no health In him. His Honor Hold that if it had been don© on an<« occasion only ho could have overlooked the inattor to name extent, but tho bualnuHK seemed to htvvo gone on every opportunity presenting itself. In vain did Mr, Jnckson harangue the Bench. His client had a wife and family to keep; If hl« Honor would convict him and order him to come up for sfntt'iien If h" made restitution within a certain Hem. Ills Honor: i am not going to do

that, so it is o£ no use you arguing. Mr. Jackson: Will your Honor give the matter consideration*? His Honor: I never sentence a prisoner without giving EVERY DETAIL FULL CONSIDERATION. (To the prisoner): I cannot allow you to commit three offences m a week simply because you have been drunk. I am going to 4mpose a light sentence. The sentence is that you be imprisoned for two months on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative;, that is six- months m aIL