KICKED WRONG DOOR
Drunken Youth’s Mistake CONSTABLE ASSAULTED Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, December 27. Charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Main Street yesterday, with assaulting a constable in the course of his duty, and with wilfully damaging a pair of police trousers, James Deeming, aged 26, of Akitio, and Claude Ferrick, of Pahiatua, appeared in the Police Court this morning before Messrs. A. J. Graham and C. H. Whitehead, J.P’s. Both pleaded guilty, and were convicted, and were ordered to pay 16/6 for the damage done with fines of £1 for assaulting the police, and 10/- for reristing Senior-Sergeant Whitehouse said that defendants had obviously come to Palmerston North for the holidays, and were, when arrested, very drunk. The constable found them at an hotel where they were furiously punching and kicking a door in their drunken state thinking that they were knocking on it. The two men mistook the hotel where they were staying and were so muddled that they thought that the constable arrived in his shirt sleeves.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 80, 29 December 1930, Page 10
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