TROUBLE ON TRAIN.
RETURNING FROM RACES. WEEK-END IN LOCK-UP. Ralph Kiligour and Alfred Charles Williams, of Paeroa, found it necessary, on account of creating trouble with the police, to spend 'the week-end in the Morrinsville lock-up instead of proceeding home from the races at Te Rapa on Saturday evening. After the race special arrived at Morrinsville Kiligour, who was said to be under the influence of liquor, was found using obscene language on the railway station. He resisted arrest and boarded the train with Constable Jackson in pursuit. The train in the meantime.began to move off, but - the constable managed to have it stopped and again tackled his man. At this juncture Williams'intervened, but the constable, with the assistance of •others, managed to get the par; of them to the lock-up. When they appeared at Morrinsville on Monday before Messrs C. M. Glimmer and H. Kirk, J’s.P., both pleaded guilty, and Kiligour was convicted and fined £3 for using obscene language and £2 for resisting the police, while Williams- was fined £2 for obstructing the police. It wap stated tha-t neither had had any previous convictions against them.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4904, 18 November 1925, Page 2
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188TROUBLE ON TRAIN. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4904, 18 November 1925, Page 2
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