"Oh, Your Worship"

NZ Truth, Issue 943, 22 December 1923, Page 7

"Oh, Your Worship"

TRAVELLER SURPRISED.

(From "Truths" Hamilton Rep.)

"Oh, your Worship, you surely doht mean that, do you?" was the startled ejaculation of an Auckland commercial traveller, named David Davis, when, at the Hamilton Court last week, he was sentenced by Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., to a month's imprisonment for using obscene language and threatening behavior m a railway carriage on the Main Trunk express from Auckland to Prankton the previous evening:

It was shown- that accused wastra-v veiling m a first class carriage on a second class ticket, and thav when spoken to by the ticket collector he 8 agreed to pay the difference, but whilst the ticket was being made out Davis commenced a tirade of afcuflie and made use of some very filthy language. He lost control of himself, and created a disgraceful scene, despite the fact that there were ladies m the carriage. Davis, who was a respectably dressed and well-spoken man, said he was not' accustomed to drink, but had taken a little that day m celebration of nis birthday, and it had gone to his head. He was on his way to Rotorua to see his wife and four children, Where his. wife was convalescing. He 'had never been m trouble before. The police bore out this latter assertion, stating that nothing was known against accused. "One month imprisonment," drily remarked his Worship,

"Oh, your Worship, you surely don't mean that, do you?" remarked accused, with a look of consternation, but he was not, gi^ven a chance to enter Into an argument with the Bench, for he was hurried out of Court to join the first train back to the city and a month's respite from civic life.