SEQUEL TO FIGHT
♦ . Fines amounting to £6, with the alternative of twenty-one days' imprisonment, wore imposed oil John I'itzgerald for various offences in connection with drunkenness by Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day. The defendant was fighting with another man in Taranaki street opposite the Panama Hotel yesterday afternoon, said Senior-Sergeant Dompsey. Constable Pagct ...went .across to arrest them, but one escaped. While the constable was walking Fitzgerald towards tho police station he resisted and tried to. escape. There was a struggle when the constable was putting on the handcuffs, and the accused tore his tunic in two places.. Tho accused was convicted on charges of drunkenness, fighting, tho use_ of obscene language, and the committing of mischief by wilfully damaging a police uniform.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 4
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127SEQUEL TO FIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 4
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