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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2863, 3 January 1893, Page 2

Before Major Steward and Mr W. G. Rees, Justices of the Peace, this morning, John Paget, Hinds, was charged with having been drunk, with disorderly conduct while drunk, auc} with resisting (he police From the evidence given it 1 ihat Pae;et, who is a blacksmith at Hinds, and is addicted to drink, so much ho that it had been found necessary to take oufc a prohibition order against him, had been at the Tinwald races and had got tipsy. He had become very violent while inebriated, and his son was trying to get him Into a trap to go home. The,police came u^on the scene, and found it necessary, so violent was Paget, to procure a vehicle, into which their prisoner could be more easily put than into a dog cart,"'to procure an express, He was handcuffed and taken to the station with difficulty. Mr Purnell appeared for Paget, and after a somewhat lengthy hearing the bench considering the circumstances of the case, decided to tine Paget 40s on each of the charges, with the alternative of fortyeight hours imprisonment on each, and 10s express hire. In passing sentence Major Steward, speaking' of an oftar that 'had been made on the part of prisoner to a<nj,in go under a prohibition order, said^ he thought the law in this respect should be altered to make it equally pen.il for a prohibit whoaskedtobesupjjliedwithdrmk.. with the pepson who supplied him. VY. H. Paget, son of the prisoner, was charged with inciting his father to resist the' police, and also with himself having interfered with Constables Gray and Jackson while they were arresting his father. The police evidence was to the effect that whi'eat I first Pagat junior had given i:hem every i assistance in his power to secure his violent i father, he had afterwards altered his con- ! duct, incited the prisonpr. to resist and I assault the constables, and hod himself I greatly hampered them in their endeavors to arrgsfc 3?aget senior. Three witnesses gave evidence fop (rhp defence. The Bench, while desirous of protecting the police in the execution of their duty, and 1 determined to do so, were net able "to ai y intention on i'.\e conduct of Paget junior to rescie his father from the police' •Had such intention been evident they would have inflected a-egvepe puuirhment.. As it. was they were incliu'ed to look a 3 linencly upon the ';case as the could, and inflicted only a nominal fine —Is. Tli€s IBe§f Tea [N CANTERBURY for the money, and froe from any excess of asfcriiigehcy. COUNTESS 2s.