“MUST HAVE BEEN SEEING SNAKES.”
MAN DAMAGES BICYCLE ALMOST BEYOND REPAIR. Charged with drunkenness and with wilfully damaging a bicycle, the property of a person or persons unknown, James Edward M’Kay, who appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., admitted that he had been “seeing snakes” last evening. For drunkenness he was fined 10s, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. For wilful damage, he was fin* ed 20s, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment, and ordered to pay £2 damages. Police evidence was to the effect that the accused seized the bicycle outside the Wellington Hotel in Tuam Street and damaged it almost beyond repair. The accused stamped on the machine with the result that the rear wheel was completely destroyed, the front wheel and front forks buckled, and the handle bars damaged. M’Kay said that he got into an argument and was hit over the head with the machine. “Were you seeing snakes last night?’* asked the Magistrate. “Yes, I must have been,” the accused replied.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19107, 27 June 1930, Page 9
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