CONSORTING CHARGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1939, Page 4

CONSORTING CHARGE

23 OFFICERS GIVE EVIDENCE

Two months' imprisonment was imposed on. Frank Sidney Drew, labourer, aged 26, when he appeared in the Magistrate's Court today on charges of assault and of consorting with reputed thieves. During evidence on the latter charge no fewer than 23 members of the Wellington police testified that they had seen the defendant at various times in company, with men'with police recqrds.

In the first case evidence was given by Sidney Robert Day, t a steward employed at the Wellington Club, that he had been attacked by two men in the early morning outside Clovelly House, Plimmers Steps, and that during the assault.he had been struck on the head and kicked. He had been obliged to seek medical attention for an injured Martha Bishop,-a domestic, living near the steps, said she was aroused lust before dawn by cries and from the window of her room had seen the defendant kicking a man. \ . Drew was stated to have a lengthy list of previous convictions. In sentencing the defendant to two months' gaol on each charge, to be concurrent, the Magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout warned Drew to keep away from his undesirable associates when he came out of prison. His previous offences had been largely confined to assaults, drunkenness, and fighting, and he might add, stealing to his misdemeanours unless he chose better company. ' .