PORT CHALMERS POLICE COURT.
Tuesday, November 28,
(Before T. A. Mansford, Esq., R.M.) A Strange Case.-Frederick Crabb, a groom, was charged with being drunk and disorderly while in charge of a horse yesterday evening, and with damaging Constable Murphy's uniform and assaulting that officer Mr Joyce defended him.—lt appeared from the evidence of the police that the prisoner was drunk while riding a young colt, and on Murphy arresting him he assaulted him, tearing his uniform; and while being conveyed to the lock-up, he managed to throw the eonstables at least ten times. His conduct was described by Messrs Elder and Dr O'Donoghue, J.P.'s, as that of a furious madman—For the defence it was stated by Messrs J. B. Taylor, Hedger, and others that the prisoner was not drunk but perfectly capable of doing his work, the witness Hedger asserting that Constable Murphy had thrown the prisoner down, knelt on him, and, to use his own words, "completely pumped the breath out of him."—His Worship took till two o'clock to consider his decision.
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Evening Star, Issue 4292, 28 November 1876, Page 2
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173PORT CHALMERS POLICE COURT. Evening Star, Issue 4292, 28 November 1876, Page 2
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