AN ARREST MADE
ASSAUL TON FRI K LABOURERS ACTIVITY OF POLICE FREE LABOURERS IN EVIDENCE This morning Sergt. Cahill and Detect ive-Sergt. Quirk© arrested Michael Roughan on a charge of being concerned in the attack on the free labourers on Wednesday night, when eight sleeping men were assaulted at a boarding house - n Stafford street. Roughan wa s brought before Mr R. M. Watson, S.M.. this morning and was charged with committing actual bodily harm on Albert Dick on or about the nth inst. Detective-Sergt. Quirk© applied for a remand to Wellington, accused to appear on the 21st i n st The remand was granted. Accused applied for bail. Th© police asked that substantial hail be fixed, a? the injured man was in hospital and it was not known what his condition was* Th© Magistrate fixed bail, self in and two approved sureties of each. When arrested, Roughan was also charged with being a rogue and a vagabond within the meaning of the Police Offences Act, 1927, in that he wa s found by night in a building in Stafford street.
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3929, 12 January 1933, Page 5
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