AN UNRULY CUSTOMER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10853, 19 March 1921, Page 2

AN UNRULY CUSTOMER

LAMBTON QUAY FRACAS PHOTOGRAPHERS INTERRUPTED IN THEIR WORK. CONSTABLE! ASSAULTED. MitoTiell Joseph Darcy appeared before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., yesterday in answer to charges of drunkenness, using obscene language, and assaulting Constable Jarrold. It appears that several evenings u&o two photographers were taking photos of a shop window in Lambton quay when Darcy came along and interferred ivith them. Plain-clothes Constable Jarrold was called, and made to arrest Darcy, who resisted and attacked the constable and made use of obscene language. A witness who had answered a call for assistance, said that he saw Darcy strike the constable on the jaw, and described the language as "not fit for a pig to hear." Mr A. B. Sievwright. who Appeared for Darcy, contended that he had a perfect right to walk along the King's highway and look in a shop window. In regard to the assault Darcy was not to know that Plain-clothes Constable Jarrold was a member of the Force. Mr Hunt held that no man had a right to interfere with another man who "was earning his bread/* He accordingly inflicted a fine of 5s on the charge of drunkenness, and .£lO on the charge of assault, in default two months' imprisonment. A conviction was entered on the third charge, and Darcy was ordered to pay costs £2.