FADDY AND TAFFY EXCHANGE SOME RACIAL PLEASANTRIES

NZ Truth, Issue 1103, 20 January 1927, Page 5

FADDY AND TAFFY EXCHANGE SOME RACIAL PLEASANTRIES

WildliishnwnAndfa Welshman Stage l- A Verbal Dqnn^

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative.) ■ ' 'For phwat were you comin' out o' me room, then? Shure and ye got away wi ' me wallet, ye did, ' ' thundered the wild Irishman.

"A. ND I tell ye yg're a liar, ye are, ye ** are," > stormed back the irate Welshman. "Phwat, a loiar I am, ye say? Yes, all men are loiars, bedad," Paddy hurled back., ./- 'fYe're a. liar, I say ye are." „ "And you, says I, are a burglar. That's phwat ye are.". Yes, things were lively for five minutes 'm the Christchurch Magistrate's Court last weejc while Taffy and Paddy slanged each other m stentorian tones across the floor of the Court. TThe Magistrate wa_ patient, but the dialogue showed signs of getting out of hand and the Court orderly had finally to join m the shouting match 'to restore something like order. While it lasted it was a verbal Donnybrook, but the Irishman won the day and had the satisfaction of .seeing his doughty foe stunneU into silence by the ' decree of ' the Court that he spend the next. three months breaking stones m Paparua Prison. It all happened the night before. John Talent, a seaman, had been paid off his ship at Lyttelton, and had come for a spell and a look round. He put up at the Terminus Hotel and a little before 8 o'clock" the same evening he made the startling discovery that his wallet, containing his wad of, notes, had disappeared. PADDY yn PURSUIT That disquieting information followed immediately after he had seen John Edwin Evans leaving hisroom m suspicious circumstances. '■■•■•'. '_> '-. Now, if there is one thing that an Irishman will hot stand for, it is the attentions of a thief where his own personal belongings are concerned. Paddy's Irish ire was up In a 7 moment, and when Evans did a getaway, he set off m pursuit of Taffy. The chase ended m the railway yards; The hullaballo had attracted a big crowd, and finally. Taffy was run to earth. Seeing the game was xi_>, he handed back the wallet to the owner, but Baddy was not finished with him. ■-' .■ Taffy was detained until the police arrived, when he was escorted to the station. Paddy had not cooled down next morning when Evans made ...his .7 bow to Magistrate Lawry.. |

He had' not been m the witness-box a minute when his voice rose m a thundering boom as he told of his wrongs. •'.'.. • ; B ut it. was hot until Taffy chipped m from the dock with the impolite observation that Paddy- was c liar that the fun really started.: It was the signal for a general ";.' flare-up, andf or several minutes both did their utmost to shout each other down. They soon got to the "you're another stage," and had it not been for the barriers that separated thermit is odds-on that , coats would have been, flung to the winds' and a real good oldfashioned Donnybrook with wigs on the green woufd have ensued. "It's a liar that ye are," boomed Taffy. "Phwat, a loiar I am it is, ye says,", thundered Paddy. "It is a. liar that ye are. I never sen ye before. Paddy glared at his enemy and his voice shook the very windows. **Indade, it's a loiar ye says that ol am. A loiar oi am, am I? Well, then you're a burglar, that's phwat ye are, Bays oi." "You call me a burglar, ye do? -Be careful now, or it's perjury I'll charge ye wl'," Taffy thundered back m equally terrifying tones. TAFFY GOES DOWN _ _ - — . — , The Joke was getting a bit out of hand arid the magistrate, shouting above the din, tried to make himself heard. He succeeded— -baoked by the bull-throated roar of the Court orderly—ln subduing the contestants, and the police at long last were able to proceed with the case. There was no trouble experienced m proving the charge of theft, although Taffy vehemently denied his guilt. But as he had nothing to gay m defence and did not elect to give or call evidence, the magistrate found" him guilty. .- Evans was then reminded of -a pre--vious conviction for theft, and the S.M., remarking that he did not appear to have profited by his first term m goal,told him he would go to prison-, on the present occasion for three morithß with hard labor. *' And with a look at his Irish antagonist, but never a word, Taffy, flushed with his verbal battle, stepped down 7 from the dock and out to the waiting'; prison vehicle.