Molloy Runs Amok

NZ Truth, Issue 1030, 22 August 1925, Page 3

Molloy Runs Amok

The proverbial bull in' the crockery shop had nothing on Joseph Molloy, a carpenter residing m Auckland. Joseph, so his counsel told Magistrate Poynton, had had a bit of a nasty cold, and m an endeavor to cure the troublesome infection, he tried as a remedy the potent spirit' at 9d per "nip." AVhen he went to his lodgings the cough cure took a peculiar effect on his customarily quiet demeanor. He" had a few words with the landlady — who would always speak a good word for him ordinarily — but on this occasion he set about breaking things, doing damage to the extent of £2. All the material value for the- amount mentioned was to be found m a heap of debris and broken crockery m the kitchen. Joseph had never been m trouble of any kind before, and counsel reckoned the whole affair could be adequately got over by a small fine. . Molloy had not attempted to strike the; woman. The S.M. ordered that Joseph should replace the kitchen utensils destroyed, and m addition fork out 'the sum of £2 as a reminder of the inefficacy of the particular brand of medicinal treatment applied. • One witness got 10s out of her visit to Court, though she was never "presented."