STREET FRACAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 45, 22 February 1940, Page 14

STREET FRACAS.

THREE MEN IMPRISONED. ——— i POLICE SERGEANT INJURED. ■ i (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A fracas which occurred in Cuba Street on January 28, in which a police sergeant received injuries to the face, resulted in imprisonment for three men. Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, found that one of the three accused had struck the sergeant in the face with a broken glass. Norman Alan Millar, a hawker and seaman (29), who was charged with assaulting Sergeant Bonnington, resisting Constable Stanaway, and assaulting Constable Stanaway, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each of the first and 6econd charges, the terms to be cumulative. On the third charge the magistrate found that the assault was part of resisting. William Alexander Millar, a whatf labourer (34), who was charged with resisting the sergeant, using obscene language, and assaulting the sergeant, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on the first charge and one month's imprisonment on the second, the terms to be cumulative. On the third charge he was convicted and discharged. John Joseph Morris, a fireman, aged 42, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for resisting a constable.