[Editor: This article, regarding the trial of a soldier arrested for being drunk in public, was published in the Goulburn Evening Post (Goulburn, NSW), 3 September 1940.]
Urged soldiers to rescue him
When he was fined 10/ or 24 hours’ for drunkenness, a 20-year-old defendant was told at the Goulburn Police Court that a future offence would earn him a far more severe penalty.
“This young man is going the wrong way about starting off life,” remarked the police prosecutor Sergeant Searson, who told Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., that the defendant, who had previously caused the police trouble, had been arrested on Saturday night.
He had then endeavoured to incite a number of soldiers to assault the arresting constable and take him from custody.
Agreeing with the sergeant’s remark that if the defendant came before the court again he should be bound over, Mr. Ryan said to the defendant: You want to remember that. If you come back again we will deal with you differently and make the penalty much more severe.
Source:
Goulburn Evening Post (Goulburn, NSW), 3 September 1940, p. 1
Editor’s notes:
bound over = to be compelled by a court, judge, or magistrate to do something, to abstain from doing something, or to obey a particular order; to be ordered by a court of law to appear at a specified time and place; to be placed under a legal obligation by a court of law (e.g. to be of good behaviour, or to keep the peace, for a specified period of time)
See: 1) “bind over”, Oxford Reference
2) “Binding over”, Wikipedia
P.M. = (abbreviation) Police Magistrate
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