FRENZIED FIREMAN.

NZ Truth, Issue 253, 30 April 1910, Page 5

FRENZIED FIREMAN.

A Cannibal Captured.

Very little trouble is experienced with, the coasfcgoing seairan, but when the port of Auckland is occupied by the home boats, the police court business always shows an increase. Plain drunks don't give much trouble and are glad to get back to their ships, but men of the stamp of Robert Pitten, a Liverpool fireman, not only become boisterous and break things, but tax the accommodation of an already over-crowded Mt. Eden, and m many instances become a permanent tax on the community. Fitten got ashore on Friday, and immediately got full of Auckland hops, and rolled into the Hobson Hotel m a riotous manner and i demanded liquor. The. licensee endeavored to .get him out, but the Liverpudlian rough was too strong for the staff, and they were forced to retreat. The police being sent for, Fitten flitted, but was overtaken by Constable Ualwell, who proceeded to arrest him. Then the sailorman appled his teeth to the constable's hands, one finger being bitten to the bone. Calwell hung on to his assailant, who appeared before Mr Cutten on Saturday morning last, looking quite defiant m spite of a beautiful black eye, and the fact that his garments Avere torn to shreds, the damage evidencing his struggle with the limb of the law. Mr Cutten said "two months hard," and the Dominion housed another undesirable iir migrant at its expense.