FOOLISH POOLE

NZ Truth, Issue 580, 29 July 1916, Page 6

FOOLISH POOLE

Bitfi a Belle with a Bottle

(Prom "TruthV Auckland Rep.)

A soldier, named Albert Poole. o*tnlttod to Magistrate Frajwr, S.M., at tho AucklArid S.M'a CoiirtV on Monday last, that Just a week previously ho had Btnocked a "lydy" named Esther Harwood. on her UHnklnff-box with a botUe. Senlor-sergwint Rutlodge said that Poole bad OVERSTAYED HIS LEAVfc from Trentham some 15 days, ajid on Monday week wont to a house In Greenwood -street, Eden -terrace, when? there were two women. They were all making merry, and consumed much booze, and eventually the Inevitable orjrumont cropped up, and Poolo throw a bottle at Esther, finding her head. She was not sorlously injured and did not now wish to go on with ! iha case. ! Poole said that on the day htfl le,nv«s was up ho met one of tho women, who Invited him to the houum and h«* met Esther Hanvooc! there. They were all drinkinK, and on the night In quoatlon he told them that he w«« ffolnj* to U'uvc. whereupon ono of them "plant- ! cd" his luit. He bf»fun to nourish tho bottl* i.v ohdi:r to frighten them. and unintentionally ulruck tho womu.i I Uarwood with It. Ills Worship s«l<l In view of tho | fact that t'uon' h«d bwix In cuat<'oy v wtn?k he* would h*> convict^ anil urtU*r«'d to «mn' up f"«" «f»toiK*« \vh«?o uitlod upon.