DRUNKEN INTRUDERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1922, Page 5

DRUNKEN INTRUDERS

-■■■■ ■ — SENSATION AT HURUNUL. MUSIC AND ASSAULT. (Special to the Star). CHRISTCHURCH, February 17 After being roughly ejected liuur their home by two urunken men, -i llurunuL family bpent some horns ui tile sci ub while the ejectors, who pte 1 tended to have a pasbioit for giamaphone music, maue free use ol tlie ; rouse ami then helped llieuibelves to the best bed tn it. Two roiigli-looking individuals, John Tayloi AicD- ug.-.R ami George Eizclf.-, were charged m the Christchurch .Uugistrate’s Ci urt this morning beiure 1 .dr. Wy\etn \\ il-mt, S.AI., with being , rogues and vagabonds, and with being , in the premises 01. William Henry Jiliier til lliirtiniii without reason tut being there. They were both further charged with assault on Ellen aim ■ William Henry Alilner, while Ah- ■ Dongill was further charged with ub- : scene language. Air. S, l’ii< niris. who appeared , lor the two accused, ph-aib d n t guilty < to the first charge, that oi being rogues and vagabonds. tie entered a iormal plea of ti 't guilty on. the sttbsequeiii cli.l rges. • I Im police report of the occiit t en"*:- i stated that Aiclhmgall and Fiz.elle, who had been employed rti a threshing .mill in tin- Hiiruniri district, arrived drunk it the lluriinui rabbit gate at 7.45 p.m. -m Alarch Btit- i hey made 1 hetilselves ■.’ery objectionable to Air. AV. ii. Ai litter and Airs. Alilner, care- ; takers <.f the liiiriniiti Rabbit Board, the men g-t through the window >f < Alilner’s private house, cluised them i-tiii of the house, and subsequently oc'•:t|ited the lioust- tliei’selves an’ slept 1 tn the Alilners' bed. Ah Doug I ! threw Airs. Alilner on tire rout ami pulled her hair, and (based Althi.t, 11n eatening to snipe and kill him. , b izell'- also It ion to hit Aliltier AI - ; Dougnll used obscene language. Fllen Alilner said that the two ;’c- •. i-sed -■ me hanging about iu-r house 1 (ii (he aflc-i'm’on of Alarih 8 and asked for assistance in mending a liicyiie. i ihi y sabs'-i'iurnt 1 y ent.-red (he li-'UsC ( and seemed unwilling to go away. ( They w.inted to have the gramapliouo played to them and on her refusal to do so left th" house. They came bacx in tin' evening, however, and started off their c'lreer of terrorism by tlir-’sh i ing the dogs. Site then found Ah.- j Dongall entering the kitchen window. Her bt.sba.td got up and they tried fo get the men to go away. Ah-Dou ;.-’iII i-sed bad language (o her and she fol- ' lowed the mon. who had laid hantts on her husband, up a hill. They caught i her by tlio hair and swore at her on ; several occasions. She subsequently cattle back to the house .-uid found tec . two asli.-ei) in her and her husband s : bed. j William Tbmry Alilner said he iiui i rover seen the two c.w'U.--. <1 bob.-ie tim day of the oceti rri-ni-e. Them tliev :w--cost'-it him at: his work am! asked him . wli-.-t!;:,-r he had a gramajdum--. lie replied “n->.” and they wet;! awav. 1 lu-y retnri od again in the evening onJ. attempted to g---t in through ihe ‘ Kitchen window. liis wife gm up and lemonstrat.ed with them, but they insisted on entering by force, using sulphurous language the while the-,- attempted to hii him. At intervals during the evening accused asked whether he had any go al gramapiione reeoriis and ask ! him to put them on jor them. Witness then dispatched ms son to tin- telephone to bring (he ; police, and a neighbour came do.'.n , ( n his hor-e with a stockwhi]). Subsequently iie and his wife hid in the bushes. The Alagistrale said that he confit - find no mitigating circumstances. Accused had forced themselves into the t house of a lonely settler and had bo- ( haved abominably. Aitltier and his wife had had t.o seek i-lielter in the-bu.-h for hours. McDougall, who had 1 a police record, was sentenced to six ’ months’ imprisonment, two months on < each of the charges on which he was (-(mvicled, as he s<emed to have been - the instigator. Kizelle was sentenced j to two months’ imprisonment, being cue month on each of two charges of assault. ' 1