A NOVEL BED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 244, 18 November 1914, Page 10

A NOVEL BED.

BEER, GIN, AND RACES. Walter James Johnson was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, having been found by night without a lawful excuse ou the premises of Wm. Wright, of 30.1 Colombo Street. Wright, who said he was a pork butcher, detailed the occurrence, stating that Johnson had-slept the night in his shop window. Witness subsequently found that a, bottle of onions had been three-parts eaten. '

Johnson:' We went to the" races fo-g-ether ou the lftth, didn't we. We went iu a motor car. —Yes.

When we came back to the shop you asked me in for a drink, and sent me out for a bottle of "Old Tom." —'01 it on! 'Oo suggested the gin? I got the Old Tom," and we drank it.—'Oo paid for it? We drank it, you and I.—There were three-parts of it left next day. The second bottle of Schnapps I got." —Did you!

We drank three-parts of that, and after the gin we got 'three-bottles of beer. —You're putting that to me. Now, I'll tell 'you something. You said you felt like a glass of beer, and went out to get some. You didn't come back.

After we drank the two colonial beers you .sent me out to get two bottles of draught beer. Both of us got so drunk before II o'clock that I couldn't go home.

Accused submitted 'that he was in regular He had drawn his wages on Friday.

The information was dismissed