OBSCENE LANGUAGE USED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17945, 24 November 1932, Page 11

OBSCENE LANGUAGE USED

OLD OFFENDER PUNISHED “I WAS VERY PROVOKED” * ‘ This man is making his seventyninth appearance here,” said Detec-tive-Sergeant Doyle when Alfred James Massey, 63, musician, pleaded guilty in -the Auckland Police Court to charges of drunkenness and using obscene language. The offences ivere stated by Mr Doyle to have been committed at the Auckland railway station on Monday evening. “I am extremely sorry,” said accused. “I must have been provoked. It would not have happened, had I not (bumped into a gentleman. I went to the railway station to go to Papakura and (had the fare in my pocket when arrested. I had my music with me and I was going to* sell it to obtain money to pay a fine.” Mr Doyle: Methylated spirits are the cause of his trouble. Accused: I admit I have been hero 79 times in 40 years, but the past is done with. When I belonged to a gentlemen’s club in Poverty Bay I iwas drp.nk 52 times in a year and was never locked up. Why should Ibe now? The magistrate, Mr W. R. McKean: You admit you used bad language? Accused: I was very provoked and bad words might have slipped out. For using obscene language accused was hned £2 and for drunkenness £l. Default was fixed at seven days’ imprisonment.