DRUNKEN YOUTHS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19865, 13 June 1927, Page 7

DRUNKEN YOUTHS

LIQUOR AT WEDDING WELLINGTON BROTHERS’ SPREE. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 11. William Alexander Miller, aged 16, and Norman Allan Miller, aged 161, brothers, appeared to-day at the Magistrate’s Court for sentence on charges of being disorderly while drunk, assaulting a constable and resisting a constable. The elder brother also admitted damaging the constable’s false teeth and the other with damaging his overcoat. The offences arose out of the arrest of the youths in Manners Street on Wednesday night, when returning, in a noisy drunken state, from a wedding breakfast. “The Probation Officer’s report shows that this is not the first occasion on which you have indulged in liquor,” said the Magistrate. “You can easily see what drinking and resisting a constable leads to and results in, and if you find that liquor has the effect of making you quarrelsome you should leave it alone.” Both were convicted and discharged for being disorderly while drunk, and were fined £1 each, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment for assaulting and resisting, and were ordered to pay the damage in respect of the teeth and uniform. The younger boy has also to pay for breaking a pane of glass in the police station. Suppression of the names was refused.