HIS TONGUE SLIPPED
"My tongue slipped a bit," was all a youth, Percy Love, had to say in the Magistrate's Court yesterday in answer to charges of catching hold of a tramcar while riding a bicycle and of. using obscene language. . -
Senioi-Sergoant Ward said that Love had been making a practice of hanging on to tramears on his ivay in to town from Island Bay of a morning. When a conductor on one occasion told him to leave go, the defendant used obscene language in the 'hearing of passengers. • '
In view of the expenses involved, the defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs only, £2 6s. .
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 16
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