COURTS AND OFFENCES.
RESISTED 1 THE POLICE. (IIY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.') CIHRISTOHURCH, Oct. 19. Charles Routchelor. a warehouseman, was sentenced by the magistrate to thi-ee months’ hard labour for assaulting and resisting the police, in the execution of their duty. The evidence showed that Batchelor had been “mad drunk’’ outside a hotel and that a member of a hostile crowd attempted to free him from two constables. The magistrate commended the police for their restraint in an awkward situation.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 October 1926, Page 9
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79COURTS AND OFFENCES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 October 1926, Page 9
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