“TRY TO BE A MAN AND NOT A CUR.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18937, 6 December 1929, Page 8

“TRY TO BE A MAN AND NOT A CUR.”

MAGISTRATE SPEAKS STERNLY TO CARNEY. "I have no sympathy with men who punch women. Get out this time, and try to be a man and not a cur,” said Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when imposing a £5 fine on Andrew Carney, twenty-six, labourer, for an assault on one Mabel Darling. Default was fixed at thirty days’ imprisonment. Senior-Sergeant Shanahan said the accused got drunk, and visited Mrs Darling’s house. Mrs Darling was his sister. He walked into her bedroom, and found her in bed. Her bag with her purse in it was on the dressing table, and the accused snatched at it. Mrs Darling told him to leave it alone, as it containued. some of her husband's wages, but he kept trying to snatch the bag, and a struggle ensued in which the accused blacked Mrs Darling’s eye. As soon as ho came home, the husband complained to the police. “The husband does not approve of this man,” said Mr Burns, who appeared for the accused. “He was drunk on the occasion, but he claims that he pushed Mrs Darling, and did not strike her.” “Can I say a few words?” inquired a man at the back of the Court. • “Sit down and keep quiet,” said the Court orderly. “Who is that man?” asked the Magistrate. “The hus*band.” “And here’s my eye;!” came a feminine cry from the back, presumably from the victim of the assault. Mr Darby, Probation Officer, said that Carney waS well-known to the police. “The whole crowd of them are,” he said. “This sort of things is tßeir pet job. He is no 'fit subject for probation.” The Court then imposed sentence.