POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16499, 27 March 1917, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

• ARREST VIOLENTLY .RESISTED." i A young man, David Mclvor, pleaded T guilty, in the Police Court yesterday, before ':. Mr. E. C. S.M., to being drunk, resisting the v police, ; arid damaging three i teapots valued at 4s, the property,- of P. ■ Prime. ' j. " '' •, ''Senior-Sergeant Rutled,je"sa,id defendant was drunk in'- Karangahape Road, and when'arrested resisted .violently.'-; In the courso'of his struggles he broke three.teapots outside ;; a shop, kicked the constable, arid; injured bis hand. i.; With -the;-assist-; ance ;of tramway .' officials, • the arrest ; was effected, r ;':'.: Defendant was fined £1 for the. resistance, and ordered to pay for the damaged teapots. Cecil Burleigh Nesbit (Mr. Tuck), admit* . ; ted assaulting JohnVKnipp"; a railway porI ter. Senior-Sergeant Rutledge said deJ fendant was seated on the rail of the : plat- ; form at the J rear of a ! railway carriage I when the porter : told him to get aown'*v He 1 did ! so, but after abusing the porter kicked i him when his back was turned." '- v . f ■; Counsel said defendant .was- an epileptic, and at times was liable to be>irrespon- j Isible. The hasty manner, of the porter provoked him. , ' I #;; Defendant was fined £2 and £2 3s 'costs. ' • j : 'i; For: : committing an indecent act -; Samuel j 1 Anderson : was fined \ 10s, John "Francis Walsh was* fined £1 for a breach -of his ! prohibition order. ' . ,