Prisoner Who Helped Constable
HAMILTON, June 29. An echo of the incident on the Wellington railway station on Friday night when a constable was assaulted by a professional boxer, was heard before Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court when the prisoner who was being escorted on the train appeared in answer to a charge of false pretences and another df a breach of his probation. The accused, William Raymond Fitzgerald, alias Jerry Cranston, 28, plead ed guilty to both counts. When the police stated that this man was the prisoner who escorted himself from Wellington and who gave the constable considerable assistance during the incident, the magistrate remarked: “This is hardly a matter to be taken into consideration in this case.”
The accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each charge, the terms to be cumulative.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 153, 1 July 1939, Page 6
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