CONSTABLE ASSAULTED
YOUNG MAN RESISTS ARREST CONVICTED ON THREE CHARGES [frosi our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Wednesday Three charges of behaving in a disorderly manner* while drunk, of Resisting arrest, and of assaulting Constable G. Tait, were admitted by' Douglas Wright, a labourer, aged 29, in the Hamilton Police Court to-day. Sergeant T. Kelly said that accused and a group of four other men who were drinking from bottles were warned by Constable Tait to disperse at Frankton on Saturday night. "On the third occasion accused refused to go, and defied the constable to make him move. When accused was arrested he resisted violently and bit the constable on the hand. Sergeant Kelly added that acci'sed had a very bad list of previous convictions. Accused said he was drunk at the time and did not know what he was doing. The magistrate. Mr. S. L. Paterson, fined accused £2 on the first count, in default 14 days' imprisonment, on the second count, in default 21 days' imprisonment, and on the third count, in default, five weeks' imprisonment. No time was allowed in which to pay the fines.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23018, 21 April 1938, Page 15
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