GAOL TERM

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 18, 18 February 1942, Page 5

GAOL TERM

YOUNG MAN SENTENCED

FRACAS IN STRAND

Charged with assault, obscene language and 1 with) violently resisting arrest a young man aged 20, John Edward Young, appeared in the local court yesterday morning before Messrs R. W. Scho field land G.' R. Kent, Jis.F., and was sentenced to three months in Mt. Eden gaol. The charges arose from a scene in the Strand om Monday evening. The accused pleaded guilty to all charges, and Sergeant M. Farrell stated that at 7.15 p.m. on Young had approached Walter Cox, Laxi driver, to drive him home. The driver had refused as 011 a previous occasion the accused had refused to pay a' fare. Young had then struck the driver on the nose and for a time it was thought that a fracture had been caused. However, tills was not so. The police had been called and it was found that the accused had been drinking. Sergeant Farrell stated that Young had arrived in New Zealand in 1939, and had served one month for deserting his ship. That was the only trouble he had been in and he felt that he would not have assaulted the driver had he not had, liquor. Continuing the Sergeant said that during the disturbance the accuscd had used obscene language and later, although he had gone to the station . without trouble had violentlyresisted when taken to the cells. "We must maintain the law and you must obey the law," stated the Bench in naming the sentence. The charges were serious and on the obscene language the term was inflicted on the other two charges the accused being convicted and discharged.