FIREMEN IN TROUBLE

Evening Post, Volume xc, Issue 79, 1 October 1915, Page 8

FIREMEN IN TROUBLE

CASES IN THE COURT. Some firemen have been in the habit of creating disturbances in the city streets at night, and in this connection they - have given the police some trouble. Last night matters became particularly lively outside the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, and there was occasion to arrest John Thomas Hunt for using particularly bad language. Hunt's mates went to his assistance, and a crowd hostile to the police soon gathered round. Eventually Hunt was taken away, only to be rearrested again in Lambton-quay. In the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M-, Hunt was convicted and discharged for drunkenness ; fined £2, ' in default fourteen days' hard labour, for resisting arrest; and £3, in default one month's imprisonment, for the language. Arising out of the disturbance another fireman, James William Quirke, had to answer five charges, as follow : (1) Resisting arrest; (2) assaulting Constable Marks ; (3) using obscene language ; (4) wilfully damaging two police helmete valued at 18s 6d ; (5) drunkenness. He was convicted on all counts but the last, and fines were imposed totalling £7 18s 6d. In two cases the alternative was fixed at on© month in gaol, and in two others at three days. His Worship said that he would always take a serious view of assaults on the police.