FIGHT IN PRISON CELL
ONE MAN IN HOSPITAL A SSAI LA NT REMANDEJ.) (Tor Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Trouble between two men in a police cell after one had already been found fighting in a street, was mentioned by Sub-Inspector Dempsey in the Police Court to-day, when Thomas Francis King, aged 56, a labourer, was convicted and discharged for drunkenness and fined £1 for fighting Alfred Toseland in Abel Smith street. Sub-Inspector Dempsey said that King was found fighting last night The accused was arrested and placed in a cell with John Paton Hardie, where a fight developed. King got a black eye and used a cell utensil to strike Ilardie, who was now in hospital under observation. A remand was made in the case in which King was charged with assaulting Hardie and the case in which Hardie was charged with drunkenness, procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order and wilfully breaking two panes of glass.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19825, 30 December 1938, Page 6
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