OBSTRUCTION BY WOMAN
FINE OF £2O IN CITY QUERIES BEFORE! MAGISTRATE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 24. Rosina Stuart Trevella, a married woman, was fined £2(]j in default thiee months’ gaol with hard labour by Mi E. D. Mosley, S.M., this morning on a charge of wilfully obstructing a police sergeant in Cathedral Square on May <5. The offence occurred when a crowd was hooting volunteer tram workers. The police said the woman twice refused to move on and would have been arrested then, but the arrest of a woman at such a time might have precipitated trouble. In answer to questions in the court the woman denied being an obstructionist. "When asked whether she. was in Lambton Quay, Wellington, when the trouble occurred there accused said: “Not that I know of. I do not know Wellington very well. I was in Wellington on business. The sub-inspector: Have you not said it was music to hear the glass being broken ? Accused : I have not.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19320524.2.99
Bibliographic details
Hawera Star, Volume LI, 24 May 1932, Page 7
Word Count
165OBSTRUCTION BY WOMAN Hawera Star, Volume LI, 24 May 1932, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hawera Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.