KICKED WRONG DOOR
DRUNKEN YOUTH’S MISTAKE. v ßy Telegraph—Press Association). PALMERSTON N., December 27. Charged with behaving in a disorderly manner iri Main Street yesterday, with assaulting a constable in the course of his duty, and with wilfully damaging a pair of police trousers, James Leeming, aged 26, of Akitio, and Claude Ferrick, of Pahiatua, appeared in., the Police Court this morning before Messrs A. J. Graham ami C, H. Whitehead, J.P’s.
Both pleaded guilty, and were convicted, and were ordered to pay 16/6 ;for the damage done with fines of £1 for assaulting .the police, and 10/- for .resisting arrest. . .Senior-Sergeant Whitehou.se said that defendants had obviously come ,to Palmerston North for the holidays, ,arid were, when arrested, very drunk. ( The constable found them at an hotel where they were furiously puriching and kicking a door in their drunken state thinking that they were knocking on it. .The two men mistook the liotqjl where they were staying and ware so muddled that they thought The constable arrived in his shirt sleeves.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1930, Page 6
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