After The Flood Came The Deluge

NZ Truth, Issue 1128, 14 July 1927, Page 8

After The Flood Came The Deluge

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special When. Victor James Flood, of: becomes fighting drunk. The pot the destructive instinct and it:'.-i ON a recent Saturday. afternoon Victor set out from home to go to a football match, but instead of doing so, he finished up m a pub with some bosom frierids7 The result was Victor got "stunned"

Christchurch Representative.) Christchurch, gets a few m he ent fumes of liquor also develop svthen a'case.-pf''look•■o^'lt.,, kThis was the tangle out of which Lawyer M. J. Burns sought to unravel something by way of mitigation, but it was a hard task, From what counsel had to say Flood had gone to the war when 16 and was

to beat the band. Back on the hoto e trail at last, /but unfortunately for "Victor he 'was so "tight" that he did. nqt' trouble about distinguishing between houses. That was how it came about that he found his way into the wrong house, but that fact did not disturb him; Now Victor wa s annoyed ex ceed mi ng I y when "■■ he '„ ; was asked to take himself off, and when he, was cvi c te d his blood boiled. After that it was a Donnybrook. Back to . tho house,- a raging wild man, lurched Viotor, and for the

back m "civvies before he was 20. Being blown up by a shell caused .injuries which upset Victor considerably when he was fo o 1 i s h enough to take liquor, and it was laboring under the 'influence of -sundry ■ "spots" that caused him to wander into the wrong house and play the fool when he Imagined there was a plot pn foot . to keep him away from his wife. Counsel said he - hesitated to put forward the hackneyed excuse of N war service, but m Flood's case he thought it was largely responsible fpr his lapse. When Victor imbibed m the

spaceof a minute dr. so,the peaceful, at-mo-sphere of ■ the •'.•strange house' was shattered by a.^erjes- of; Jumps .ian.d crashes as the drunken, one got busy. Two glass'windows shivered hnder the assault and dissolved in* a shower of fine fragments. A glass door likewise trembled and collapsed and sundry other damage was done to the total value of about £15. Of course this sbrt>f thing could not be permitted to go :bn, and the outraged householder called m, the police at the double. ,f ; ■'•■'in 7 i i. «i. ' v j._ * I _» i Victor slept it off that nlgbt In , the oells and had the calm of Sun-7 day also m w,hleh to ponder"oyer, ; his.Ways, 7

i cup that cheers he: became fighting drunk. 7 ;' Lawyer Burns alsd intimated that . . \*■ k , by w lood.s npo„ie "©.'.had been asked Dy JMooas People to apply Jor suppression of his J**™ 8 he hesitated to make .™f p,? llC(! t' o, n 1; . ..' „. . , , N% eaid «-•• 'J B-110*?'. li?iaI i? iak 1 c very few orders and when J do the ciroumo%^^^L^Ul:h!r_ n »r„ be exceptional. In this case there are no,circumstances that would justify - Twelve months' probation and a pr0- ....,.„ mj„ ■■ J»v „- „„**„ *™ hibition order with an order for restitution was the .penalty. ' The name was not suppressed.