CONSTABLE RESISTED.
YOUNG MAN FINED. A charge of having resisted a constable whilst in the execution of his duty was preferred against Robert Allan Khan, a young inan, at the Magistrate's Court this morning. Accused was llurther charged with drunkenness. Senior-Sergeant O’Grady, who conducted tho case for the police, stated that, on Saturday afternoon, accused rushed on to the railway station just as the Auckland express waa pulling out , and made an attempt to board the train. Accused at the time was drunk and was carrying a couple of bottles of beer under his arm. Ho was prevented by a porter from boarding tho train and thereupon used abusive language. Constablo Boyd earn© on the scene and arrested accused for drunkenness. The lastnamed violently resisted and had to be handcuffed. Accused pleaded guilty to tho first charge and not guilty to the second. The magistrate, after hearing tho evidence of Constable Boyd, inflicted a fine of £2, in default 14 days’ imprisonment on the first information and 10s in default 24 hours’, on the second.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 101, 30 March 1925, Page 5
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