NOISY AND DRUNK
AFTER a WEDDING BREAKFAST TWO YOUTHS IN COURT (United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. William Alexander Miller, aged 18, and Norman Allen Miller, aged 16, haltbrothers, appeared to-day in the Magistrate’s Court for sentence on charges of being disorderly while drunk, assaulting a, constable, and resisting a constable. The elder also admitted yesterday damaging a constable's false teeth and the other with damaging his overcoat. The offences arose out of the arrest of the youths in Manners Street on Wednesday night when returning in n noisy and drunken state from a wedding breakfast.
"The probation officer’s report shows that this is not the first occasion on which yon have indulged in liquor/' said the Magistrate. “You can easily see what drinking and resisting a constablo leads to and results in, and if you find that liquor lias the effect of making you quarrelsome you should leave it alone.”
Both were convicted and discharged for being disorderly while drunk and were fined £1 each, in default 48 hours, for assaulting and resisting, and ordered to pay the damage in respect of the teeth and uniform. The younger boy has also to pay for breaking a pane f glass in the Police Station. Suppression of the names was refused.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 10 June 1927, Page 2
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