Gate-Crashed Party And Broke Window In Flat

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31093, 23 June 1966, Page 6

Gate-Crashed Party And Broke Window In Flat

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 22. A 20-year-old apprentice printer who was, until recently, a member of Hie Hell’s Angels motor-cycle gang was convicted on a charge of wilful damage by Mr F. McCarthy, S.M. He is James Ernest Dixon, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond and to a charge of wilfully damaging a window valued at £1 10s. I Two women witnesses gave I i evidence that about 20 youths | j gate-crashed a party they were i holding in their Blockhouse Bay flat on May 14. | Many erf the youths wore < Hell’s Angels insignia on their i backs. | The youths began to smash

windows in the flat and the girls called the police. A constable, Graham John Howard, said that when he arrived he found the flat crowded with boys. He saw Dixon throw a bottle through a window. Dixon, in evidence, said he had been sitting on his motor-cycle outside the house when most of the damage had been done to the flat. He said Constable Howard said when arresting him that he recognised him because he was wearing a white jacket with Hell’s Angels insignia on the back. At least two others in the party were wearing similar jackets. The Magistrate remanded him forp a week for sentence. The charge of being a rogue and vagabond was dismissed.