SEQUEL TO BRAWL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 71, 21 February 1940, Page 3

SEQUEL TO BRAWL.

THREE MEN IMPRISONED. Per Press Association. -WELLINGTON, Ecb. 19. A fracas which occurred in Cuba Street on Sunday evening, January 28, in which a police sergeant received injuries necessitating stitches to the face has resulted in imprisonment for three men. Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, found on the facts that one of the three men accused had struck the sergeant in the face with broken glass. Norman Alan Millar, a hawker, and seaman, aged 29. who' was charged with assaulting Sergeant Bonnington, resisting Constable Stanaway and assaulting Constable Stanaway, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each of the first and second charges, the terms to be cumulative. On the third charge the Magistrate found that the assault was part of the resisting. William Alexander Millar, a wharf labourer, aged 34, who was charged with resisting the sergeant, using obscene language, and assaulting the sergeant, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and one month’s imprisonment on the second, the terms to be cumulative, and on the third charge he was convicted and discharged. John Joseph Morris, a fireman, aged 4-2, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for resisting the constable.