STAND-UP FIGHT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 10

STAND-UP FIGHT

GIRLS BEFORE COURT QUEEN STREET “BATTLE.” AUCKLAND, Feb.s. Two girls who engaged in a light in Queen Street on Sunday night—until separated and arrested by a constable —kept each other company in the dock in the Police Court yesterday. They were Ellen Scorgie (18) and Mary Morning (20), both described as factory hands. Senior Sergeant Joyce said a constable at 10 p.m. on Sunday night saw a crowd in Queen Street. “In the centre of this crowd he found these two girls fighting,” added the senior sergeant. “It was a real stand-up light. As the constable approached them they fell to the ground and continued punching and kicking each other. They even wanted to continue the light when the constable got them up on their feet.” Making a statement from the dock, Mary Morning told Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M.. that for the past two or three months Ellen Scorgie and several other girls had been annoying her when she met them in the street. “They have been looking for it for a long time,” said Morning. “Last night they booed and hissed at me, so I got another girl to hold my bag and let this one have it. That’s how it started.”

Mr. Levien told both girls that such conduct had to stop. Each was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. “It. means that you have both got to be of good behaviour during that period, otherwise you will he brought up here again and dealt with,” said the magistrate. “Be orderly, decent citizens. There is plenty of room for you both in the city.”