PETONE POLICE COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1182, 18 July 1911, Page 8

PETONE POLICE COURT.

At the Pstona Police Court yesterday before ])r. M'Artuur, P.M., Alfred John Kenai, Mark Pair, and Sydney Wallace appeared on a charge of creatine a disturbance in a railway train on Saturday, .Tidy 1. They are a!;o charged with behaving in a violent manney and creatine a breach of the peace, while there is an additional charge against Kenai of assaulting Guard Brenuau, of tho railway service. Thomas Bronnnn, railway Riianl, stationed at Lower Hutr, said that h?. was in eh arse of the 11.30 p.m. train on tho night of July I. When he arrived at Kaiwarra, complaint? were made to him regarding tho defemliinK _Those fnmplninfs "wer? renewed at Ngahauransa, and when he went into the ear he >aw 'Pan- and Eenai fighting. He took Parr's name, but that of lienai he know, as he had hail occasion to previously report him. When witness wont: into tli-e. rar JienM followed him, and later ."truck him on the face. Thorn were altogether about twelve in the party. To Mr. Pcth'riek (who appeared fir accusod): He did not commit any offence on Kenai, and would -deny such an nllesation. Ho thought that the boys had boon drinlii.ntr. Constnblo Mffiklejohn, of Petonp. yaiil ho was called by the gmrd at Pehne, and he took tho names of the offender*. Later he overheard n .'conversation, from which it was evident the defendant? kqm emleavonring to make a charge a?niii?t the guard. Itnnai stated to one of the nnnilipr: "If you ran fwoar that tht> ijnard struck me first we will bo abln f'n put hi< nor on." Ho saw the guard boing jostled on the platform by tho defendant.'.'

After hearing the evidence nf Albert Johnson nml .Tnmes Sullivan, the Court adjourned until 10 o'clock next Monday morning.