DOUBLE CHARGE.
AN UNRULY PRISONER. At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr. J. H> Salmon, S.M., Edwin J. Phillips pleaded guilty to drunkenness, - but said that he could not remember resisting the police when further charged with resisting the police in the execution of their duty. Sergeant McDonnell said that at 6.30 last evening Constable Dawson saw accused at the comer of Richmond Street). He was then drunk,, and woa advised to go home. Ho did not do so, and was warned twice. When told h Q would be arrested, he used obscene language, and was then arrested. He resisted violently, and had to be handcuffed. The Sergeant] said that he had no desire to ask for a heavy penalty, as accused was a married man, if he would agree fo a prohibition order being taken out. On reading the iist of convictions against accused :tho magistrate remarked that it was formidable. Aeftusod'was convicted and discharged «n the two charges, and a prohibition order issued.
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Thames Star, 24 December 1921, Page 5
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166DOUBLE CHARGE. Thames Star, 24 December 1921, Page 5
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