“INTERNATIONAL” BRAWL
MELEE IN SWANSON STREET THREE MEN IN COURT There were seemingly internanational complications in Swanson Street last evening, when a Pole, a Dutchman and a New Zealander became involved in a brawl of mysterious origin. The story was told when Adrian Y'ohari Wilhelm Hermanns, a Dutch youth, Joseph Nowak, the Pole, aged •23. and Ewen Mclnnes, the New Zealander. pleaded guilty to charges of fighting, and not guilty to damaging a taxi window valued at £3 7s 6d. The foreigners, both sailors, were also charged with drunkenness. A constable said that he found the three men covered in blood in Swanson Street last evening, where they were surrounded by a big crowd. The sailors alleged that Mclnness had attempted to rob them. When the three accused were put into the taxi a window was broken, but he could not say which one did that. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, fined accused £1 for fighting and ordered them to pay the cost of the broken window. For drunkenness the sailors were each fined 5*..
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 127, 19 August 1927, Page 9
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