IN HANDCUFFS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 60, 12 March 1938, Page 10

IN HANDCUFFS.

MEN IN COURT. RESISTANCE OF POLICE. MEMBERS OF SHIP'S CREW.. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUKt'H, this day. A melee in which several members of the crew of the Tainui attempted to rescue three men from police custody occurred at Lyttelton yesterday afternoon. As a result three of the crew appeared in tli© Police Court on various charges to-day. The men appeared in Court handcuffed, and later were removed under strong polU.e guard, still handcuffed.

The trouble started with a disturbance on a train from Christehurch. as a result of which the guard telephoned the Lyttelton police to meet the train on its arrival. The men were travelling on second class tickets in a first class carriage, and when the guard remonstrated with them he was struck on the side of the neck and told that he would l>e killed if he reported the matter. When the train arrived the guard pointed out (teorge Henry A\liiting, and the police endeavoured to arrest him. He had to be thrown and handcuffed. The police nut a crowd of men on the street and a further struggle ensued until police reinforcements arrived, and secured two other men.

In Court Whiting was convicted aijd discharged on a charge of assault, fined fl for disorderly conduct, and fined £."> each on charges of obstructing the police and of using obscene language. William Flanagan, a fireman, was fined £1 for disorderly behaviour. £-> for resisting the police, and £.> for using obscene, language. For disorderly behaviour and obstructing the police Walter Minard, ship's cook, was fined £2.