COSTLY ’PHONE CALL
MAN’S BAD LANGUAGE [ Ter Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Oct. 11. A telephone call from a railway station slot on Saturday evening cost Francis Bernard O’Kane, aged 22, 110. He used indifferent language to a young woman at the other end and asked her to meet him outside the Epsom Post Office. She agreed, but when she kept the appointment she was accompanied by two detectives. O’Kane admitted having used the language, which he attributed to the result of drink. He pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day. “Did he know the young woman?” asked the magistrate, Mr Wyvern Wilson.
Detective-Sergeant McHugh: “No, sir. He just picked out a number from the telephone book. This is quite a occurrence with some people, ringing up and using filthy language. Such offences are very difficult to detect.”
O’Kane expressed regret to the Court, but when he asked for time to pay the line, the magistrate replied: “You’ll get your liberty when you pay , £10.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 242, 12 October 1937, Page 9
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