ASSISTED POLICE
Witness Congratulated By Magistrate STRUGGLE WITH SEAMAN “You are to be congratulated upon the assistance you afforded the police,” Mr. Raymond Ferner, S.M., told Laurence William Mead after he had given evidence in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, of having assisted a police constable, whom he had noticed was having difficulty in arresting a seaman in Lambton Quay on Tuesday. The seaman was Angus McKay Mackay, aged 46, who pleaded guilty to a third statutory offence of drunkenness, and to causing mischief by damaging a pane of glass valued at £4. It was stated by Senior-Sergeant J. Dempsey that a constable had experienced difficulty in arresting accused, and Mr. Mead, when driving along Lambton Quay, noticed the trouble and gave assistance. Accused had been put into Mr. Mead’s car and had pushed his foot through the windscreen. On the charge of drunkenness accused was convicted and fined £2, in default seven days’ imprisonment, and on the other count he was fined £l.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 4
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