FIGHT IN GAOL
TWO MEN IN POLICE CELL i United Hr**** AB*oeiai mi. 1 WELLINGTON. This Day. Trouble between two men in a police cell after one had already been found fighting in the street was mentioned by Sub-Inspector Dempsey In Court today when Thos. Francis King (56), a labourer, was convicted and discharged for drunkneness and fined £ 1 for fighting Alfred Toseland in Abel Smith street. The Sub-Inspector said that King was found fighting last night, and was arrested and placed in a cell with John Paton Hardie, where a fight developed. King got a black eye and used a cell utensil to strike Hardie, who was now in hospital under observation. A remand was made in the case in which King was charged with assaulting Hardie. and in' the case in which Hardie was charged with drunkenness, procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order and wilfully breaking two panes of glass.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 December 1938, Page 4
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