RESISTING THE POLICE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 6

RESISTING THE POLICE

Sentence.-i amount to three nwiilh^^ imiiri.soniucnt were imposed on Ocorgc'Keem •in :i ln'oourer, accd 39. when ho appeared before Mr. T. B. M'Xeil, 5..V., at tha Magistrate's Court to-day on, charges involving drunkenness, the use .of obscena language, and resisting a constable. Constable "ioung said he arrested the accused at 8.40 p.m. yesterday at the corner of Vivian and Cuba streets. The accused was drunk, resisted arrest, and used the lancuago complained of. A crowd ot sonic tin™ or four hundred people gathered, and some were very hostile to tha POSub-Inspecior Lopdell: ''I suggest it is time he was punished lor resisting the police There have been twelve or thirteen similar charges against him previously. The Magistrate said the accused, had a very ions list of convictions for various offences ill connection witli drunkenness and resisting the police, extending from JOOfi to the present date. On the charge of drunkenness, Kecnant was fined ;U, m j default iS hours' imprisonment, «nd "^ ii. inlT obscene language he was sentenced to ]4 .lays1 imi.risonn.ei,(. A sentence oT ,|,,-,.e inonihs- imprisonment, was imposed t resisting « constable. .'.I he. Mapjs!,'■;,to onlcivd the three si'iit.cncc.-1 to h<?

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