TROUBLE IN RESTAURANT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 97, 26 April 1928, Page 19

TROUBLE IN RESTAURANT

"He is now described as a street loafer," said Sub-lispector Lander of Michael Francis Blake, aged 28, who was charged in tlie Magistrate's Court on Tuesday with assaulting Constable Ellis while in the execution of his duty, with restating Constable Ellis, using obscene language, and with wilfully damaging crockery and furniture, valued at £i,< the property of George Petei' Popovie. Evidence was given that the accused, with two companions, went into a restaurant in Manners street about 4.30 yesdiiy afternoon, when they were in a fairly drunken condition. Bad language was used, and the furniture, and crockery were smashed as the result of Blake's resistance. Sub-Inspector Lander said1 that another man who was also to have bean arrested escaped, Blake, who was particularly violent, had four previous convictions since November. Remarking that Blake bad previously been convicted of assaulting and resisting the police, tho Magistrate (Mr. E. Page, S.M.) sentonced him to one month's imprisonment on tho charge of resisting the police, seven days' imprisonment for using obscene language, and on the charge of doing wilful damage he was convicted and ordered to make good the damage, in default.seven days' imprisonment. At the suggestion of the Magistrate the charge of assault was withdrawn.