HAD DIFFERENCE WITH LANDLORD.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 30 March 1931, Page 7

HAD DIFFERENCE WITH LANDLORD.

LESSEE PUT HIS FIST THROUGH HOUSE WINDOW Jack Ward Challis, a labourer, aged thirty-six years, had a difference with his landlord yesterday over the payment of rent, and a result was that he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning to answer three charges—drunkenness, to which he pleaded guilty, using indecent language and wilfully breaking a pane of glass at 266, Armagh Street, the property of Thomas Coyne. He pleaded not guilty to the second and third charges. Coyne, in his evidence, said that Challis would not pay his rent, so witness locked the door of his room. He had already been given notice to quit. When Challis came home and found the door locked he demanded the key, and when he cquM not get it put his fist through a window and used the filthiest language to witness’s wife. He wanted to fight the constable when he was called in. “ Wifi I get paid for my window?” Coyne asked as he left the witness box. “ You will be lucky if you do,” said the Magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley). The accused said that he could not remember swearing. He was not in the habit of doing that or drinking. For drunkenness the accused was convicted and fined 10s, in default twent3 rfour hours’, for indecent language £2 and costs, in default fourteen days’ hard labour, and for breaking the window he was ordered to pay the damage, in default twenty-four hours’ hard labour.