ASSAULT IN HOTEL
In the course of what his counsel (Mr. 6 Kent) described as a celebration, Clarence Melville Poppleton, aged 29, went into the Occidental Hotel last night _ m search of liquor. His subsequent actions were related to Mr. T. B. M'Neil, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court .to-day. Popploton, said Sub-Inspector Lopdell, saw a porter coming downstairs with a tray. The accused seized the porter and held him against the wall while he attempted to take some of the liquor, which was in glasses, off the tray. The porter, an old man of 70, resisted, and Poppleton then aimed a blow at his face. It missed, and the accused then went outside, where he was arrested. ■ „ Mr. Kent said that the offence was committed when the accused was in a state of absolute drunkenness. He was a nrst offendpr and not of the larrikin type. On the assault charge the accused was fined £3, in default seven days imprisonment, while for being unlawfully on licensed premises he, was fined if An application for the suppression of his name was refused. '
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 11
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181ASSAULT IN HOTEL Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 11
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