WELLINGTON POLICE COURT
GAOL FOR OBSTRUCTING A CONSTABLE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association)
WELLINGTON, this Day
While Constable Honevbone was taking .lames Walsh, aged 41. to the .Mount Cook police station on Saturday evening on a charge of using obscene language, a crowd gathered and the constable was obstructed by several men. Walsh aKo resisted violently. He was to-day lined £2 for using obscene language, and convicted and ordered to make good Ibe damage to the policeman's tunic L'l! LV: and on a charge of resisting he was sentenced In one moi,i li.
Lawrence Peterson, aged 21. and Robert Uurgcss. aged I'.l. each got u month for obstructing ihe constable. A nineteen-year-old Maori youth win, was arrested last week while wearing a woman's apparel, got six mouths to-day mi a charge of being a rogue ami a vagabond. On each <>! three charges of theft he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within twelve mouths.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 April 1928, Page 2
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