DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15321, 8 December 1911, Page 7

DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

CONBTABLE ASSAULTED.

YOUTH GETS SEVEN DAYS.

/mother exhibition of disorderly cortdne* took pbee on Wednesday wpM, when Bconos wro enacted similar to tkfio of the prorkHie oTouing, nnd it had Hβ sequel iu tho Police Court ymtorday morning, wh*» William (Jiranhan. need 20. wu conrieted of assaulting Cbnstablo Bandy and iu sent to f?aol for eoren diye. Earlj in &© cvoninff un inwponeiblo pennn bid to bo remorotl from tho stope at C&rgill'e Monomont, And this led to a disturbance, the police boing polled with egge, k«W>. «nd mot eaokß. Thingi Rot irorse later, ami tho officer* woro oompcDod to tako the nemee of toxcnl joucr men who were talcing en active, put This led to outburst of hoctiuK and bufcllins, and 4hen Uornaliiut to wrceted and Doioe tifcon to tho Police Station bondnde followed (-ompdling tho offtceisyto nee tWr trunchootii) in self dofonoo. At tho otfttioa iteclf mud ond stones were thrown, one of Uμ midnlos p&gsinj; through & window. Another ttruok a. youojr man on the twnpiov and ho was carried ineuk, where a niodicil stuJont attended to iua inlurios. The crowd nftm words rctumtd to tho monument, tho disturbance being continued kill after midnight. Mr iL Y. Widdoffson ooonpiod the benoh and Aoctiscd entered a ptea of (ruilty Chief Dotoctiro Herbert csplsined that the roefirst etart«l at tho Fountain, and then s» Mr Bedford's mceticß at Dr Stuart's statrnc Rotten egjp. ttonn, nnd wot sscto wwe potted at the polico and at everybody oko indiscriminately. Dokeclivo Thotnson, who was standing at tho cornor ol DowKnjs etroot. saw accused pick up a wet, dirty r-ick and deliberately throw it aX Coostabl* Bandy, hitting him on ibo head and neck. Accused then m&dc off, but tbo detoctire caught him and took him to the lock-art. Accused snid ho w« hit throo timee with a tack and rotten crrs. Hβ took it all in pood part and had no intention of eirildn* the constable. It woe his first niirlrt in Dimodin, He \m a steward and hud juot como off his boat.

Hα Wo.-ehip aid ho M not bdhve tho wck was thrown m fan. Tho police had a most difficult and arduous duty to perform, and young fellows ought to be ablo to ilwtinpmh betweon what wae weonablp futt and what was Vwrso play. This of thing: hod cone too fur in Dtmedin daring tho two aaje. Ho nt not Roin* to toko a lonknt lie* of & cato wbote * ot)"-»-Ki« «-..« '•united. Atruvxl plcado} for a chance, and a«kfd sot to bo ecnt to gaoL It mu his first offence, and ho had a widowed mother and n oripplod oieter to support.—A «tntet>ce of seven diya' impruonmoDt, with hml labour, won imposed.