CONSTABLE OBSTRUCTED
OPTICIAN FINED £5 INCIDENT IN CAFE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. An attempt to prevent a constable from arresting a man in a cafe early yesterday morning proved, an expensive action for .lames Joseph Clarence McLaughlin, 34. an optician.. To-day, in the Magistrate's Court, he was fined. £5, fri default one month's imprisonment, for wilfully obstructing the constable. The man arrested, James Ellis Burt, 36, a presser and . motor driver, was fined £2 10s, in default 14 days' for resisting the constable, and £l, in default seven days, for obscene language. The police said that Burt had interfered when the constable was settling an argument, between two women, and was taken in charge. McLaughlin followed the constable along the street trying to pull Burt away, and the constable had to seek the assistance, of two taxi-drivers, Both, defendants previously had been before .the .court.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18622, 5 February 1935, Page 11
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