A CALLOUS SON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13959, 19 July 1907, Page 8

A CALLOUS SON.

In the Auckland Police Court last week a young man was chawed with disorderly conduct and using obscene language. Tho accused's father complained that his son had come home in a drunken condition, assaulted him, and used filthy, language, and .when informed that lie would not be allowed to enter the house, threafened to burn it down. The father gave tho a soil a very bad character. He stated that the latter wasted all the money they j>»ve him in company with a number of blackguardly companions, and in one week had squandered £23 which his mother had given him, • thinking he was reforming. "On Monday," related tho father, "he pawned his. clothes, on Tuesday lie came home without his boots, and on Wednesday he went away in a suit of his brother's, and returned clad in a garment of rags, suoh as you now see him in," concluded the old gentleman. The subject of this evidence loaned casually the while against the dock rail, and at its conclusion expressed a desire to take the first ' boat to Sydney. He didn't want to go back home. Ml he wanted of them was his clothes. The Bench considered that he was a callous and utterly disgraceful son, and decided that before his trip to Sydney 'lie should serve throo months' imprisonment on each of the two charges preferred against him.