"A BUTTINSKI"
CONSTABLE OBSTRUCTED'
An unusual sequence of events resuited in the appearance, in trate's Court today, of Henry Robert Fulcher, a linesman, aged 32 *Jo« charged, before Mr. J. L. Stout, .S,»U. with obstructing Constable R.-..M. Baniffl in the execution of his duty, _ The police evidence was that constable Banks had arrested a young man and was conducting him down, a city street. The defendant was standing on a corner, and as the constable palsed, demanded that he should let the boy go. The constable took no notice of the defendant, and continued to walk up the street. He arrived at the corner of Vivian and Cuba Streets, and intended to cross the road. The defendant followed him and the prisoner, and demanded that the constable should let the prisoner go._ He claimed the young man as his brother, and eventually adopted a threatening attitude. The constable called a taxi, and when it stopped the defendant immediately, got in and ordered the driver to proceed to a certain address, but the driver said that the constable had engaged the vehicle. The constable placed the prisoner in the taxi, but his attention was drawn to the defendant long enough for the prisoner to escape by the further door. He was eventually caught. Mr. R. Hardie Boys, who appeared for Fulcher. said that the defendant to put it colloquially, was purely and simply a "buttinski." He saw the constable with the prisoner, who was a young man, and he thought that the boy was not drunk enough to be taken, in charge, and wanted to lend a hand to get him' home. Actually, the boy had not been arrested for drunkenness, so that as it turned out Fulcher was only making a nuisance of himself. Fulcher gave evidence along these lines, and said he thought that if he could get the boy away from the constable and get him home he would b« doing him a good turn. He admitted claiming the boy as a brother, but denied shaping up to the constable. "I had a bit of a cheek, I will admit that," he said. - m \ * The Magistrate imposed a fine of -<.£!*'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 136, 10 June 1940, Page 3
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