POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22514, 5 December 1936, Page 15

POLICE COURT

. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5. (Before Jjr’ H.' AY..Bundle,. S.M.) ’ SEQUEL TO FIGHT. , - _ Two seamen, from the motor tanker Skaraas appearedbefore the court ;to answer charges, of .committing mischief by wilfully breaking one pane of glasi, valued at £l6 4s, the-property Of Patrick O’Gorman. The defendants wfre Karle Johan Wilhelmsen (25) and Ame Parili Pattersen (30), botli natives |of Norway, and.both, pleaded, guilty. ! Senior-sergeant .Packer said that the delepdants .came, off the oil -tanker last night,, and about 11.10 they .went along Princes street where they got,into -an argument.. They -became very, heated and had a scuffle, Wilhelmsen catching the other defendant by the throat arid throwing him through the window, . ’ The magistrate (to Wilhelmsen): Doyen remember anything about it? - Wilhelmsen .-..said Lhat- they .srcinF ashore aifd • had 1 something to drink. They had. a fight and Pattersen dropped through the. window-.- .That -was all. -He did not mean to break the- win-; dow. ■' : /■’ The defendants- were both convicted, arid’ Path was ordered to make* good half of the damage (£8 '2s),- default Being’ fixed at 14- days’ imprisonment'. The- magistrate ‘ordered -the defendants to be placed aboard their ship. j ,- - - DRUNKENNESS.; j ; iAlbert. Ensor Thompson,, a statutory first offender) was_ fined 12s- 6d; in default -24- hours’ imprisonment; on' a charge of drunkenness. TWO CHARGES PREFERRED. Donald Christopher M’Lean pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and to committing mischief by wilfully damaging a cell pan. valued at 10s 6d, the property of the New Zealand Government. The defendant -was fined-10s . on the first charge, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, and on the other he was ordered to make good the damage • (I,os. 6d)y default being fixed, at 48 hours- • ’ -