PRISON FOR TRESPASSER
Raymond John Prentice, a tiler, aged 31, of Lower Hutt, was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday for being found without lawful excuse on premises in Percival Street, wilfully damaging a pane of glass valued at 30s, and wilfully damaging a policeman's overcoat. It was stated that Prentice, who was divorced from his wife, went to the flat where she was living with her sister, although he had been warned to keep away. The first thing he (lid was to put his fist through a window, which enabled him to get into the flat. The police and the ambulance were called; and the accusjed, bleeding profusely from a cut in the wrist, struggled violently when an ambulance officer tried to dress the wound, which later had several stitches inserted. It was in the struggle that a constable's coat was torn
Prentice said from the dock that h« could not do hard labour with an injured hand, but the Magistrate said that that was a matter for the prison authorities.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 9
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183PRISON FOR TRESPASSER Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 9
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