FRACAS IN STREET AT WELLINGTON

Southland Times, Issue 24055, 20 February 1940, Page 2

FRACAS IN STREET AT WELLINGTON

IMPRISONMENT FOR THREE MEN {United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 19. A fracas which occurred in Cuba street on Sunday evening, January 28, in which a police sergeant received injuries necessitating stitches in his face, resulted in imprisonment for three men. Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today, found on the facts that one of the three accused had struck the sergeant in the face with broken glass. Norman Alan Millar Hawker, a seaman, aged 29, who was charged with assaulting Sergeant Bonnington, resisting Constable Stanaway and assaulting Constable Stanaway, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each of the first and second charges, the terms to be cumulative. On the third charge the Magistrate found that the assault was part of the resisting. William Alexander Millar, a wharf labourer, aged 34, who was charged with resisting the sergeant, using obscene language and assaulting the sergeant, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and one month’s imprisonment on the second, the terms to be cumulative, and on the third charge he was convicted and discharged. John Joseph Morris, a fireman, aged 42, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for resisting the constable.