PADLOCKED TO A TRUCK

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1934, Page 11

PADLOCKED TO A TRUCK

MAN DELIVERED TO POLICE i PLOUGH CHAIN ROUND HIS NECK. NEIGHBOURS’ TROUBLES SEQUEL. BOTH FACTIONS NOW BOUND OVER -By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, July 19. Trouble in the Marshland district between neighbours, culminating in one man being driven to the city police station secured by a chain and padlock, was described in the Magistrate’s Court today, when John Michel Gearschowski was charged with using insulting words. He was convicted and required to enter into a surety of £lOO to keep the peace. Arthur Reginald Myers, for assaulting Gearschowski on May 25, was required to enter into a surety of £2O to keep the peace. Mr. E. Mosley, S.M., said the disputes in the Marshland district were a scandal and he intended to put a stop to them., ’ The senior-sergeant said that the evidence was contradictory. At 7.10 pm. on May 15 a telephone message was received at the watchhouse and at 8.15 Myers and a man named Large came to the watchhouse and said they had Gearschowski in a truck outside. Several police went ' .. out and were amazed to. find Gears- , chowski chained securely in. the truck. There was a large plough chain or chain of that sort padlocked around his neck, and the other end was padlocked to the truck. Myers told the police that when Gear- - schowski went home from "the city that day he was under the influence of liquor and was heard to use strong .language. ■ '. ‘ • At the police station,’said the senior sergeant, Myers demanded, that Gearschowski be locked up as he had gone mad. The sub-inspector was not satisfied that Gearschowski should be locked up, and it was seen "that Gearschowski was from injury. Inquiries made by the police resulted in these two" charges being laid. There had been trouble" in the. district for . years past.