MELEE IN POLICE CELL
BELLICOSE LABOURER MATE SENT TO HOSPITAL (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday Trouble between two men in a police cell after one had already been found fighting in the street, was mentioned by Sub-Inspector Dempsey in Court to-day when Thomas Francis King (56), labourer, was convicted and discharged for drunkenness and fined £1 for fighting with Alfred Toseland in Abel Smith Street. The sub-inspector said King was found fiptiting last night and was arrested and placed in a cell with John Paton Hardie, where a fight developed. King got a black eye and used a cell utensil to strike Hardie, who is now in hospital under observation. A remand was made in a case in which King was charged with assaulting Hardie and a case in which Hardie was charged with drunkenness and procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order and with wilfully breaking two panes of - ISS.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 6
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