ACCUSED ON CRUTCHES
Injured Breaking Police Car Window <N Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. January 17. Discharged from hospital yesterday, Graeme Arthur Gauntlet, aged 21, a seaman, off the Ceramic, who was involved in a brawl in Manners street on New Year’s Day. hobbled into the dock in the Magistrate’s Court todav on crutches. Gauntlet received a severed achilles tendon when he kicked out the window of a police patrol car during the melee, said Sergeant K. Ford Gauntlet pleaded guilty to wilfully breaking the window, and to charges of disorderly behaviour, assaulting
Constable L. J. Graham in the execution of his duty, and using obscene language in Manners street. Mr M. B. Scully, S.M., imposed fines totalling £4O. with costs amounting to £6. He also ordered Gauntlet to pay £5 for breaking the window.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29724, 18 January 1962, Page 6
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