CROWD HOSTILE TO POLICE
ARREST AT RICCARTON RACES HOTELKEEPER INTOXICATED. FINE OF £3 FOR OBSCENITY. CROWD’S ACTION “RIDICULOUS.” By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Aug. 14. As a sequel to an argument over a bet with another man on the Riccarton racecourse on Saturday, William Brown, aged 54, hotel-keeper, Greymouth, this morning was fined 10s for drunkenness, and £3, in default 14 days’ gaol, for obscene language. The police stated that after the arrest of Brown the crowd became hostile and there was difficulty in getting Brown away. The magistrate, Mr. E. D. Mosley, said that the hostility of the crowd was a bad feature. The police were the best friends of the crowd, and to evince hostility was simply ridiculous. It showed how the public could misconceive an action of this kind.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1933, Page 9
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