RESISTING POLICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 11

RESISTING POLICE

TWO MEN BEFORE COIJRT

Pleading guilty to a second statutory . offence of drunkenness, and to charges of resisting a constable and wilfully damaging a cell utensil, William Corten, canvasser, appeared before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today. George Charles Waterman,' labourer, also appeared charged with obstructing the constable. Constable Sheppardsaid that at 6.10 p.m". yesterday he saw Waterman and Corten .outside the ''Imperial Hotel. Corten was drunk, the. witness arrested him, and Waterman interfered, saying he would take Corten home. Corten resisted strongly when being taken to the', station in a taxi, and fought with the constable.

When Corten promised to take put a prohibition order, the Magistrate said he had already broken five. The accused was fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment with hard labour, on the first count, was convicted and dis-' charged on the second, and was ordered to make good the damage, in default seven "days' imprisonment with hard labour, on the third.

"This was the man who caused all the trouble," said Sub-Inspector C. E. Roach, when Waterman appeared before the Court.

The accused said he did not even know the other man's name, but that he had asked the constable to play the game when he saw Corten being given a "rough spin."

■ "You see that you mind your own business next .time," said the Magistrate, .in sentencing Waterman to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour;