COMMOTION IN CARRIAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15866, 12 December 1923, Page 5

COMMOTION IN CARRIAGE.

TRAVELLER'S OUTBREAK

ONE MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT.

As a sequel to what must have been a rather violent disturbance on the Main Trunk express frm Auckland last evening, a commercial traveller of good address, David Davis, was charged before .Mr 11. A. Young. S.M., at Hie Police Court Ihis morning with using obscene language and with violent behaviour in a. railway carriage.

The police slated that accused was travelling first-class on a secondclass ticket and when spoken to became violently abusive. He. however, agreed to pay the difference, but as the guard was writing out. the receipt, broke out into a tirade, against the official, using very bad language, despite the fact that there were scveral ladies in the carriage. Altogether iie losl control 'of himself and created a disgraceful sceneDavis said thut lie was not a drinking man, and the few drinks he had partaken of yesterday—the occasion of his 38'lh birthday—had gone lo his head, lie had a wife and four children and had never been in trouble before.

"Gne month's imprisonment." drily remarked His Worship. "What ! Oil! Your Worship, you surely don't mean that, do you?" uttered Davis, apparently amazed at the sentence. Id' was, however, not ■given a chance to open an argument, being hurried off lo catch the first train back.