CHRISTCHURCH STREET SCENES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 9

CHRISTCHURCH STREET SCENES.

COURT PROCEEDINGS. [BT TBLPGBAPH.— PIiKSS AB3OCTIATION.I CHRISTCHURCH, 10th January. Tho seqjuel to last night's disturbances, which originated throngh tlrreo Jack Tars from , H.M.S. Pyramus driving round the city at a rate that endangered the. lives of pedestrians, was heard in ths Police Court this morning 1 , when JohnAllen, a man-of-war&man, was 1 charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse and trap. . Accused pleaded guilty. In connection with the same * incident Miles Bradbury, another man-of-waTsman, was charged , with obstructing Sergeant Burrows ' while in the execution of hisdiuty. Sub-Inspector Dwyer stated that there were a large number of navals ashoie last evening, and, on the whole, their conduct had been good. One or two of them only had misbehaved thomselves. The' chairman remarked that the men had placed!' themselves in a very awkward position. The police had taken a. very lenient view of the case. Great forbearance had always been exercised, and always would be, towards the men who were serving the King, but the offenders must bear in mind that their conduct was liable to bring about results which they could haidly contemplate. Men-of-warsmen were always received hospitably by the cbmmunity, but that hospitality must not bp abused. A conviction, againsb both men would be entered, and the question of punishment would be left to tne responsible officer on tho warship.' - • > , • Leonard Thomas, a youth sixteen years of. age', ,\yas then charged, * with inciting Allen to resist Constable pPCoruiack in the execution pi 'his duty. - .i, ■ Sub'lnspecior Dwycr.* remarked ' tliafc Thomas's ' conduct ! last night had been ' disgraceful^ ' The feeljng displayed towards the* police of '•late was. very bqd,' and he wa's afraid this hostility .■wvsgtow' ing He believed some of these young fellows would stand complacently by and see a policeman kicked to death. Ol course, ho would take into consideration the youth of the accused, and would not v in the present instance, press for a heavy penalty Something must be, done as a warning- to young men not. tor^ist thh polico. ' ■ . . . The chairman pointed out the, extreme gravity of siich a charge aq that against i Thomas, who, he said, rendered himself , liable to a fine of £20, 'or .three months' imprisonment. The police in carrying out their duty • exercised great forbearance, and he was sorry to hear from a man" of Sub-Inspector Dwyer's experience that the ba.fl 1 feeling towards them 1 was 'growing. This' was a menace to the "peace, of the city. ' If any charge of a similar nature ever came before iym agaip he would inflict the heaviest penalty which the circumstances adduced might call for. Accused, would be convicted', ond ordared to come up for sentence- when called upon; and ,he hoped this would be a warning to those whose behaviour last night \\ as such that thoy should bo in the prisoner's box with him.