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- GAILOR AT POLICE COURT. CHASED WOMAN ALONG STREET. 1 j A sailor from H.M.s. Dunedin. Walter 1 Preston, aged 20, appeared in mufti in • the Police Court this morning, when he I pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting . Nora Kathleen Conway yesterday and . using obscene language. s Detective Sergeant Kelly said that s Miss Conway and another young woman, ■ after leaving a cabaret last night, met ; accused and another man. Preston asked I her to accompany him to a cafe, where he saifl he had some liquor stored. Miss f Conway refused, and when she objected i to another suggestion by Preston he i chased her along the street and threw | her into a passage-way. A constable saw ; what was happening, and headed Preston ' off and arrested him. Preston then made use of obscene and profane language. Mr. Kelly suggested that accused might be handed over to the naval authorities to be dealt with. "I'm on 14 days' leave now. sir," Preston told the magistrate. "I have nothing to say, except that I have no reeeollection of the matter. I had been drinking." "That's no excuse," said Mr. McKean. "You will now lose your leave and take a little punishment instead." Preston was convicted and ordered to be handed over to the Naval Base at Dcvonport.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 3
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