A DRUNKEN TRIO
Tried to Pat Police in Water (By Talarraph— Preai Association.) DUNEDIN, Sept. 10. Last night three drunk Scotsmen from the steamer Port Hobart, resenting being spoken to by a constable when they were drinking and using obscene language on the wljarf, attempted to throw him and the sergeant into the water. When a taxi arrived to take them to the police station the whole crew of the vessel turned out, informing the taximan that if he took a hand in the proceedings his sur would go overboard. The driver wisely drove away and picked up as many police reinforcements as he could find, and these finally subdued the principals and took them to the station.
The prosecutor stated that if the sergeant had not come to the constable’s assistance and used his baton there would have been serious trouide. The offenders, Donald Martin; aged S 3, George McKenzie, aged 22, and John McLeod, aged 25, were fined £3 and ordered ts| make good the damage done to the taxi and the policemen's uniforms, and directed that they be detained till 4 o’clock this afternoon, half an hour before their boat sails.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 230, 11 September 1934, Page 3
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194A DRUNKEN TRIO Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 230, 11 September 1934, Page 3
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