HELPED HIS LANDLADY
MAN IMPRISONED FOR OBSTRUCTING POLICE. When his landlady was being arrested by the police on Saturday evening for "drunkenness, Albert Frederick Clark, a fitter, aged 41, went to her rescue. As a result of this he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with obstructing the uolice during the execution of their duty. “Have you anything to say. Clark?” inquired Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M. “Yes, sir,” replied accused. "She was my landlady. That’s all.” The Magistrate: Oh, well even if she was your landlady you had no right to interfere. I must take a serious view of this case, for the lady might have got away.. Yon will be sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 296, 13 September 1927, Page 7
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