DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR.

Waipa Post, Volume XIX, Issue 1054, 12 February 1921, Page 5

DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR.

TWO MEN IN COURT.

PENALTIES IMPOSED. At .the Te Awamutu Police Court yesterday before Messrs. H. R. Ryder and W. Jeffrey, J’s. P., two men from the King Country, answered to charges resulting from an unruly jollification on Thursday morning. G. F. Beagley was accused of drunkenness and with using the following language in the Commercial Hotel. “If you don’t give me a drink in five minutes I will clean up the show,” this command being punctuated With adjectives which were more expressive than polite. Andrew Wilson, who was also charged with drunkenness, had made use of a similar threat to the barman in equally expressive and unpolite terms. Constable Rushton, in explanation of the case, said that ‘the two accused had come in from Kihikihi and entered the hotel where they proceeded to make themselves a nuisance. Consequently they were cautioned by the police, but refused advice and subsequently the constable had to be sent for by the hotelkeeper. The accused were then disorderly, their language and genera! behaviour being such as might easily have ended in a fight. They were, in short, a menace to themselves and to the public. There was no suggestion that they had been supplied with liquor from the notel; more probably they had by some means got possession of a bottle of whisky. Though they had been drinking, their condition was not such as would have caused them to be arrested for drunkenness. They had oimply been arrested because they were a menace to themselves and everybody else. A breach of the peace might easily have resulted from their threatening and unruly behaviour. In answer to the bench, accused said they came to Te Awamutu to look for a swag which had been lost in transit. They were both returned soldiers.

They were convicted and discharged for drunkenness, but for unruly behaviour in the hotel, Wilson was fined £3 and Beagley £5. The bench gave them good advice not to behave, in future, in a maner which is likely to cause a breach of the peace, and which only tended to land them in trouble—both physical and judical. Both accused, who were iiwa more rational state of mind, penitently agreed with the good advice given them.