UNRULY PRISONER.
CELL FURNITURE DAMAGED. TUNNELLER IN TROUBLE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GISBORNE, Monday. Fines totalling £6 were imposed on Edmund O'Donohue, a tunneller employed by the Public Works Department, when he appeared before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., this morning, charged with drunkenness, with using obscene jlanguage and with damaging a telephone to the value of 5/, and with damaging furniture in the police cell to .the extent of £1 17/6.
| Senior Sergeant McXamara said accused went to a taxi establishment and there struck the manager who 'attempted to ring the police. The [accused, however, pulled the 'phone from |the wall. When locked up he caused damage to furniture in the police cell. On the drunkenness charge accused jwas convicted; for damaging the tele jphone he was fined £1; for using obscene language he was fined £3, and for damaling the cell furniture he was fined £2 and ordered to pay the damages, total-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 43, 20 February 1940, Page 5
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