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AN INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE.
In the grammar of police phraseology
the three degrees of comparing the con-
firmed inebriate are— positive, habitual
drunkard; comparative, rogue and vaga-
bond; superlative, incorrigible rogue.
Joseph Hignett did not look like an incor-
rigible rogue, but when Mr. J. Gordon,
S.M., asked him at the Adelaide Police
Court on Monday whether such was the
case he said, with a tolerant air of not
wishing to force an argument, "Oh, well,
I suppose so." Hignett was not exactly
dressed for the part of an incorrigible
rogue— in the eyes of the law— for his
clothes looked clean and his face appar-
ently did not advertise drink. But the
records were against him. He had been
convicted 78 times of various offences, and
had served three terms of imprisonment
for having been an habitual drunkard. He
had also been punished under the heading
of "rogue and vagabond," and now he had
qualified, suggested Inspector Burchell, for
the epithet of ''incorrigible rogue." "Six
months' hard labour" was the Magisterial -
assignment.
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