FINED FOR BAD LANGUAGE

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 366, 7 March 1932, Page 8

FINED FOR BAD LANGUAGE

Man Thought Police were Joking.

When Thomas O’Loughlin was told last night that £SO would be required to bail out a friend he thought the police were joking. After leaving the police station he used indecent language, for which he was fined £2 and costs by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., this morning. Albert William Gauntlet, for using obscene language, was fined a similar amount. Gauntlet, aged 24, a labourer, of 8, Nova Place, and O’Loughlin, aged 22, a bricklayer, of 196, Norwood Street, were jointly charged with the theft of three keys valued at 6s, the property of Ernest James Fisher. Gauntlet, who stated that he had picked up the keys in the street, was remanded until Thursday and the charge against O’Loughlin was withdrawn. An allegation by Gauntlet that a constable had followed him and tripped him up prompted the Magistrate to say that in thirty-five years’ experience of constables he had always found that they tried to avoid trouble rather than make it. Gauntlet also said that after living in Methven for five years he had been told to leave by the local constable. To the Magistrate, O’Loughlin admitted that he had also been “ invited ’’ to leave Methven.