WILD MAN FROM DONEGAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 138, 27 May 1931, Page 6

WILD MAN FROM DONEGAL

■—- SCENE AT CASTLECLIFF AFTER THE RACES WANCAXCI, May 2(1. After serving in a bar at, a race meeting, James Smith arrived home in Corn fool Street. C-astToclill, to create a lively disturbance, both neighbours and (lie police taking a hand before he was snmmo! answer a. charge of using m'i< msi! language. Smith appeared before Mr. .!. it. Salmon, S.Mat ino '- isl rato s Court yesterday, and v. as (old tliai he had narrowly ‘escaped a levin of imprisonment. When the constable arrived he was the sub.i c.t of lilt by abuse. SeniorSergeant McLean (old the Magistrate that Smith had thought he could bind the constable, and do him a lot of harm. First evidence was given by Constable Miller, stationed at C ’-lit’!. When ho arrived on the scene Smith was standing: outside bis Iron! gale. Smith started to abuse bis wife, and ll 1(; n started abusing a man named Stewart. Witness told him to go to lied. it was idle third time that he had been called to the house owing to Smith’s drinking habits. Smith: Didn’t you tear the collar off me in my own backyard? Witness: 1 did nothing of the kind. The Magistrate: Wits Use language he used loud? Witness: A man living a hundred yards away got up out of bed and C jimo out on to the verandah. “Me sail! he was it wild man from Donegal, and was throwing gravel about. Ho was half mad,” said a, woman witness. Smith’s story of the affair was that he came home about 11 p.m. and his sou had given him a punch on the nose. He did not use the language stated. The whole was due to true nF in the family. In answer to a goesMon witness said that lie bad been working in a bar at, the races that day. He was now helping his brother in a cafe in Auckland. The Magistrate told Smith that after hearing the evidence he would have,given him a term of imprisonment but t’Sr the fact (bat he was now absent from bis borne and up in Auckland, and the family would not now be troubled with him. He would take that into consideration, and under the circumstances enter a substantial line, £lO, in default a month’s imprisonment. No time was allowed Smith to find the money.