SWORE AT NEIGHBOUR AND STRUCK HIM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18338, 15 December 1927, Page 1

SWORE AT NEIGHBOUR AND STRUCK HIM.

TROUBLE OVER SOME POTATOES. Failure to find a sack of potatoes in a paddock, made John Michael Glarschawski irate, and he directed a flow of obscene language and hefty blows towards a neighbour. Gearschawski pleaded guilty to charges of "drunkenness and using obscene language, at the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., today. Senior-Sergeant Fitzpatrick said that accused had called on a neighbour named Laing, with regard to some potatoes, abused him, swore at him, and then assaulted him. “He seems to be affected mentally when drunk,” said the Senior-Sergeant. Mr Hensley, for accused, said that his client had been promised a sack of potatoes by Laing, who told him he would get them in the paddock. “Fie went there, couldn’t find them, and decided that he had been fooled,” said counsel. how it started.” “He has a very bad li'st,” said the Magistrate, who convicted accused on both charges, and .fined him 10s in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment on the first charge, and £lo| in default one month’s imprisonment on the second. “I think he’s a hard-working man, and a decent citizen when not in drink,” said the Magistrate. Mr Hensley asked leave to withdraw a charge of assault brought bj* - Gearschawski* against Laing. Mr Thomas, for Laing, asked for costs. “This was a counter-blast against the police,” he said. Costs were given against Gearschawski.