MAGISTERIAL.
ASHBURTON-FRIDAY.
(Before Major Steward and Mr J. W f Sawle, Justices of the Peace.) Dkunkennbss. — Patrick Ryan was charged with having been drunk, resisting the police, and assaulting George Knock the previous evening. He pleaded guilty to all but the assault. It appeared from the evidence that accused had been drunk and troublesome in the Somerset Hotel, and it hud been found necessary to call in the police and eject him. The resistance to the police took place then, and the assault on Knock was committed at the police station when Ryan was bjing taken from the express to the lock-up, Kucck having come along to assist the constable. Ryan denied having kicked Knock *ith any intention of hurting him, the kick having been an accident, he said. The Bench severely reprimanded Ryan for coming ml ** town and knocking down his earnings at a public houtf, and convicted an-i discharged him on the first and third charges, but lined him 20* or a week in gaol on the second. Two first cffenJers were dealt with in the usuh! way.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2895, 10 February 1893, Page 2
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