RESISTED ARREST.
DRINK HIS TROUBLE.
STATEMENT TO MAGISTRATE. Stating that he was a good worker but that drink was his failing, Charles O'Connor, aged 44, asked Mr. C. R- Orr Walker, S-M., in the Police Court todays to. send him to Roto-Roa Island for 12 months. O'Connor was charged with drunkenness, resisting Constable T. G. Lilley, and with damaging the strap of the constable's w.-istlet watch. He denied that he was drunk or resisted arrest. Constable Lilley said O'Connor and two other men were drunk in Federal Street on Saturday, and he arrested all three. Two gave no trouble, but O'Connor resisted when the taxi arrived to take them to the lock-up. In the car there was a struggle, and the strap of witness' wristlet watch was broken. Accused was ordered to pay for the N damage done to the strap, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence on the charge of resisting arrest, and on the charge of drunkenness was remanded till Friday in order that his request to be sent to Roto-Roa Island might be considered.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 229, 28 September 1938, Page 13
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180RESISTED ARREST. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 229, 28 September 1938, Page 13
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