SHARP FINES IMPOSED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27246, 24 November 1949, Page 2

SHARP FINES IMPOSED

CHARGES OF DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR •• It can only be described as a silly drunken affair.” said Mr D. L. Wood, who appeared fo? Robert Clarence Cotton, aged 35, a barman, .in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Charged with behaving in a disorderly manner while drunk, using obscene language, and doing mischief, Cotton pleaded guilty. On the first count he was fined £3, on the second, £5 with costs (10s), and on the third he was convicted and ordered to make restitution of 17s 3d, the value of two window panes which he broke. Senior Sergeant B. W. Wootton said that a police constable saw the defendant at 6.10 p.m. on Tuesday, standing outside the Broadway Hotel, in Maclaggan street, and arguing with the licensee. Unable to quiten Cotton, the constable went to call a police car. Meanwhile, the defendant entered a telephone booth nearby in Rattray street, and refused to come out' of it when the constable asked him to do so. In a struggle between them, two window panes were broken.

Traffic Cases Ralph Vernon Phillips and Noel Barr (Mr J. B. Deaker) were each fined £2 and costs (10s) for failing to give way to traffic on the right. Robert Henry Burgess. for having no driver’s licence, was fined £1 and costs (10s).